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Machen, Arthur. Far Off Things. Martin Secker, London, 1922.
Price: US$47.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original green gilt cloth with date on copyright page. A clean, tight, unmarked copy.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Machen, Arthur. Far Off Things. Martin Secker [1922], London, 1922.
Price: US$54.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in publisher's original green cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Top edge green. Light wear to head and heel of spine. Originally titled Confessions of a Literary Man. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown endpaper.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Arthur Machen. Far-Off Things. Martin Secker, London, 1922.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A series of autobiographical essays by Machen. VG book, showing some fading to the spine. Owners name in front written in pen, small number stamp in the back. Generally NF internally. Seems to be first edition book with a seventh edition DJ as indicated on the inside flap. DJ with sunning and browning to the spine, some chips missing and now in a brodart jacket. Provenance - Collection of Gary Munson; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: Rare Collections, Brighton East, VIC, Australia
Machen, Arthur. Far-Off Things. Martin Secker, London, 1922.
Price: US$179.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Publisher's gilt-titled green cloth, green topstain. Mild worming to cloth, slight bumping to edge. PO name. Slight foxing. Hinge break mid volume but binding is firm. The DJ in mylar has small tears/chips at joints and edges. Looks to be signed by Max Beerbohm to half title page. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 159,[1] pages; Signed by Associated
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Far Off Things by Arthur Machen (Limited Edition) Signed A firm copy with dark tanning to cover edges, and spine. Moderate tanning to free endpapers with dark tanning to fore-edges of text block. Bumped corners. London: Martin Secker, Ltd, (1922), title page verso. No other printings listed. One hundred copies have been printed on large paper, each signed by the author, for sale in England and America, stated. Dedication to Alfred Turner by Arthur Machen. Autobiography. Blue cloth boards with black printed label to spine and top stain.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
MACHEN, Arthur. Far Off Things. martin Secker, London, 1922.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo, original blue boards; paper spine label (spine very lightly toned). London: Martin Secker, 1922. Limited First Edition. Number 67 of only 100 numbered copies signed by Machen.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Arthur Machen. Far Off Things. Martin Secker, London, UK, 1922.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Martin Secker, London, UK, 1922. Hardcover Firsrt Edition/Printing, 160 pp. LIMITED and SIGNED. "One hundred copies only have been printed on large paper, each signed" by Machen on special limitation page; this is copy # 11. Scarce collectors' item. Machen (1863-1947) was a famous author of highly influential tales of the supernatural. This book might be called an autobiographical memoir with a focus on classic literature. This copy is in very good contition; No dust Jacket as issued. Book is tight and apparently UNREAD, as indicated by the deckeled (untrimmed) pages, several of which are still attached to the adjacent page at the text edge (so open with care and with a blade handy).
Seller: JAC Books, Cortland, NY, U.S.A.
Machen, Arthur. Far Off Things. Martin Secker, London, 1922.
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Description: First trade edition, published in September 1922 (a limited edition of 100 signed copies was issued in August). [4], 158, [2], pp. First leaf is a blank. 1 vols. 8vo. Dedication Copy, Inscribed to Alfred Turner. One of Machen's excellent volumes of autobiography, recounting the stories of his hard apprenticeship, published during the sunny days of the Machen revival in the 1920s. Inscribed, "Again, with all gratitude to Alfred Turner from Arthur Machen October 5th 1922" There is a two-page Dedication to Alfred Turner- "one of the best friends that Machen ever encountered" (Gawsworth) - who was acting editor of the (London) Evening News in those days. Turner commissioned thirty-five instalments of the "Confessions of a Literary Man" published in the paper from March to July 1915 and first collected here. The book was successful enough that Secker published another volume, Things Near and Far, in January 1923. Gawsworth reports that Machen, in mid-September 1914, had "thought of another tale, 'The Bowmen', which was concerned with the ghostly archers of Agincourt coming to the aid of the hard-pressed expeditionary force. He wrote it out, one night at home, and sent it to Turner to take or leave. On Spetember 29th the story appeared in the paper; his editor, considering its subject topical, had accepted it" (242). And so one of the great modern legends of the war was launched. "Although he detested journalism, his Johnsonian manner and compelling character established him as one of Fleet Street's most charismatic figures. The Evening News carried several of his wonder stories, and the appearance in September 1914 of his wartime fantasy 'The Bowmen' brought him to public attention. [.] Machen's reminiscences, Far Off Things (1922) and Things Near and Far (1923), movingly recaptured his youth in Monmouthshire and his struggles as a writer during the fin de siècle, and revealed the depth of his dedication to literature" (ODNB). A choice Machen association. Goldstone & Sweetser 20c; Valentine, p. 99; Gawsworth, pp.224-5, 242; Bleiler "Writers" p. 358; NCBEL 4:646 Original olive green cloth, spine titled in gilt. Spine a bit faded. Very good copy lacking the dust jacket [4], 158, [2], pp. First leaf is a blank. 1 vols. 8vo First trade edition, published in September 1922 (a limited edition of 100 signed copies was issued in August).
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.