Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 448 pp. 8vo, publisher's art vellum-backed blue boards. No. 400 of 1050 copies, signed by Arthur Machen. Very good or better; tight and sound, with some light use and tanning to the white spine.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition. No. 422 of 1050 numbered copies, signed by the author. 1 vols. 8vo. Goldstone & Sweetser 57e Original paper vellum and blue paper covered boards, all edges untrimmed, spine sunned and worn. Fair First American edition. No. 422 of 1050 numbered copies, signed by the author.
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Arthur Machen. Fantastic Tales of Beroalde De Verville. Privately Printed, Carbonnek, 1923.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A limited edition #1013 of 1050 signed by author. I assume this is a first edition and first printing, but it is not stated. Book in fine unread condition. Spine bottom mildly bumped. Quarter velum binding with green cloth boards. Rear corner shows wear. A fine copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: Oshtemo Book Sellers, Chester, NY, U.S.A.
Arthur Machen. Fantastic Tales of Beroalde De Verville. Privately Printed, Carbonnek, 1923.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Privately Printed, Carbonnek January 1923 Binding: Hardcover 22 OF 1500 COPIES $NRP
Seller: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original paper-covered boards over vellum spine. One of 1050 copies numbered and signed by Arthur Machen. Contains a new introduction appearing in this edition for the first time.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Machen, Arthur. FANTASTIC TALES OR THE WAY TO ATTAIN. Privately Printed, 1923.
Price: US$230.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited Edition; # 28/1050. SIGNED by the author on the reverse of the title page. 448 pages in very good condition; edges yellowed. Many pages unopened. Quarter bound with white vellum over blue boards, gilt titles and decoration on the spine. Spine a little darkened, tiny tears at head/tail, Corners not bumped. Grey DJ with black spine titles. Spine and edges darkened, small chips on corners, head/tail of spine. VG-/GOOD-
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A fine copy in a near fine jacket/brodart covered, housed in a fine slipcase. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF 1052 COPIES. A very nice copy. No bumped corners to book. No cracked hinges. The scarce dust jacket is very nice. Small chips and small piece missing to top of jackets spine. An unusually nice copy in jacket.
Seller: Booklegger's Fine Books ABAA, Park Ridge, IL, U.S.A.
MACHEN, Arthur. Fantastic Tales or The Way to Attain. Privately Printed, Carbonnek, 1923.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Machen's translation of the 17th century French text Moyen de Parvenir by the poet and polymath Beroalde de Verville. Reprints his 1890 translation, with a new 8-page introduction, this being a limited edition: Copy No. 994 of 1050 numbered copies signed by the author. Machen was a writer of fantastic literature in the late 19th and early 20th century; had a great influence on the dark fantasy and horror published in the pulp magazines of the 1920s such as Weird Tales; and he was admired by such fantasy writers as Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, and Frank Belknap Long (as well as by Jorge Luis Borges, who called him a great writer). H. P. Lovecraft, in his essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature," called Machen one of the four "modern masters" of supernatural horror. Machen was also an occultist, and Aleister Crowley admired his writings. A fine copy, quarterbound in vellum, in a very good dustwrapper. A nice copy of this bulky book, usually found quite worn. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.
Seller: Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA (Lopezbooks), Hadley, MA, U.S.A.