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Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Terror: A Fantasy by Arthur Machen (First Edition) A firm nearly square copy. Very minor wear to spine edges and corners. Mild tanning to spine. Mild offset tanning to endpapers. Age darkened pages. Owner's name to front pastedown. No jacket present. First published 1917, stated. Light blue-gray boards with black lettering and ruling. 190 pp.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Machen, Arthur. The Terror. Duckworth & Co, London, 1917.
Price: US$128.09 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good copy in original grey boards, toning to paper as is the case with the first edition. Advertisement for Wright's Coal Tar Soap to last page. A fascinating novella, the time is the First World War, set around the atrocities of the German invasion, with fear of the unknown. Arthur Machen was the pen-name of Arthur Llewellyn Jones, a Welsh author and mystic of the late nineteenth early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. 192pp
Seller: Rickaro Books BA PBFA, Wakefield, United Kingdom
Machen, Arthur. The Terror. Duckworth & Co, London, 1917.
Price: US$144.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Bound in publisher's original green paper-covered boards with spine and front stamped in black. Backside stamped in blue. A fantasy by the author of "The Bowmen." 7 1/4 x 5 inches. 190 pages.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Machen, Arthur.. THE TERROR: A Fantasy.. Duckworth & Co. (1917)., 1917.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1917 edition. Acceptable. In Good unclipped dust jacket. Dust jacket is shelfworn with loss at edges; tanning; red staining; light creasing; and protected with brodart cover. Coverboards are sunned at edges. Back hinge is slightly cracked. Offsetting at endpages with heavy age-toning throughout. Small tears are bottom edges of first few pages. NO markings in text. Still in solid reading condition. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.
Seller: Book Alley, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
MACHEN, Arthur. THE TERROR. London: Duckworth, 1917.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First printing. Pages browned as always, some darkening to endpapers with evidence of a small strayed bookplate, GOOD in pictorial dust jacket with small pieces out at spine ends, some tape mends to blank side.
Seller: Nicholas J. Certo, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.
Machen, Arthur. THE TERROR: A FANTASY .. Duckworth & Co., London, 1917.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-190 [191: ad] [192: blank], original light blue-gray boards, front, spine and rear panels printed in black. First edition. Animal revolt in rural England during the Great War. ". this remains the most interesting of Machen's later weird tales." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-136. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1076. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 525. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 278. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-160. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 130. Reginald 09472. Goldstone and Sweetser 16a. Slight spine lean, text paper tanned as usual, a very good copy in good pictorial dust jacket with wear along top and bottom edges with shallow loss at spine ends and some general dust soiling. There is a publisher's two shilling price sticker affixed to the spine panel. A nice copy of this fragile wartime production (wood pulp paper and cardboard binding) which is seldom found in decent condition. (#171731)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Machen, Arthur. The Terror a fantasy. Duckworth & Co., London, 1917.
Price: US$320.22 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small 8vo. Pp 190, Advert for Wright's coal tar soap. Original paper covered grey boards, ruled and lettered black. Tiny abrasion with loss to bottom rear corner of spine. Endpapers heavily foxed/browned. Text block toned/browned. Unclipped d/w shows edge wear with some chipping. A very nice copy of a fragile (and scarce) book.
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom
Machen (Arthur). The Terror. Duckworth, London, 1917.
Price: US$333.02 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 8vo. Original grey boards. Dust-jacket, priced 1/-. A remarkably good example of this uncommon title in the jacket. Set in the middle of the First World War, the novella unfurls the atrocities of the German invasion alongside the terrifying fear of the unknown - unexplained murders, surreptitious occurrences and collective paranoia. Usual toning to text-block, overall a very good copy; jacket a little chipped at foot of spine but really a very good example.
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
Machen, Arthur. THE TERROR. Duckworth & Co, London, United Kingdom, 1917.
Price: US$350.80 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK Edition, (First Printing.Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-190 [191: ad] [192: blank], original light blue gray boards, front, spine and rear panels printed in black. Animal revolt in rural England during the Great War. ". this remains the most interesting of Machen's later weird tales." - Barron (ed), Tight binding and clean pages, a rough of spotting - toned as always due to the paper used , in a very good plus pictorial dust jacket with chips from edges, some light edge wear, closed tears along folds, the jacket has been professionally and skilfully laid on light card to strengthen and preserve. A superior copy of a scarce book and uncommon in jacket
Seller: Kelleher Rare Books, Naas, IE, Ireland
Machen, Arthur. THE TERROR: A FANTASY .. Duckworth & Co., London, 1917.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-190 [191: ad] [192: blank], original light blue-gray boards, front, spine and rear panels printed in black. First edition. Animal revolt in rural England during the Great War. ". this remains the most interesting of Machen's later weird tales." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-136. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1076. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 525. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 278. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-160. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 130. Reginald 09472. Goldstone and Sweetser 16a. Text paper age-darkened as usual, a nearly fine copy in very good pictorial dust jacket with light edge wear, two short closed tears mended internally with archival tape, and some dust soiling, mostly at spine panel and flap folds. This fragile wartime production (wood pulp paper and cardboard binding) is seldom found in nice condition and is quite uncommon in jacket. A better than average copy. (#130372)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Machen, Arthur. The Terror. Duckworth, London, 1917.
Price: US$931.82 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: . A very good copy in the dust wrapper, lacking the backstrip, browning and some slight chipping to the text block. Inscribed by the author, and dated 1935, on the front end paper to B. A. Pittar who was with Machen in the Benson Company of touring actors.
Seller: Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, Ireland
Machen, Arthur. THE TERROR: A FANTASY .. Duckworth & Co., London, 1917.
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-190 [191: ad] [192: blank], original light blue-gray boards, front, spine and rear panels printed in black. First edition. A presentation copy with a three-quarter page inscription on the half title page about writing "beautifully, to be an artist in literature," signed in full by Machen and dated 23 October 1923. Animal revolt in rural England during the Great War. ". this remains the most interesting of Machen's later weird tales." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-136. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1076. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 525. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 278. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-160. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 130. Reginald 09472. Goldstone and Sweetser 16a. Bookplate of W. Curran Reedy affixed to the front paste-down. Text paper age-darkened as usual, a very good copy in good pictorial dust jacket with shallow chips from edges, mainly at spine ends and corners, and some general dust soiling. There is a publisher's two shilling price sticker affixed to the spine panel. A nice copy of this fragile wartime production (wood pulp paper and cardboard binding) which is seldom found in decent condition. It is uncommon in jacket, and it is rarely found inscribed or signed by Machen. (#165280)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.