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Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 30 of only 250 copies. Privately printed for the Society of Pantagruelists. Arthur Machen, translator of the Heptameron of Margaret of Navarre. Quarter vellum; gilt particulars to spine. Deckled bottom and fore-edge. Loss to tail of spine and general shelf wear (see image). Moderate foxing to first and last pages. Copy without previous owners' names or markings. 5.5 x 8.25 in. 314pp.
Seller: William Chrisant & Sons, ABAA, ILAB. IOBA, ABA, Ephemera Society, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$319.00 + shipping
Description: THE CHRONICLE OF CLEMENDY; OR, THE HISTORY OF THE IX. JOYOUS JOURNEYS, Privately printed for the Society of Pantagruelists, Carbonnek, 1888, first edition, fore edge and lower edge of paper board extremities worn, soiling to the vellum spine, chapter initials hand colored, else a good or better tight copy. 1/250 numbered copies, the entire print run. Very scarce.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Title continues: In which are contained the amorous inventions and facetious tales of Master Gervase Perrot, Gent., now for the first time done into English, by Arthur Machen, translator of the Heptameron of Margaret of Navarre. xi, [4], 314, [1] pages. Number 193 of this edition limited to 250 copies. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "W.E. Clery With the author's compliments". Vellum toned; edges rubbed; occasional light foxing. Binding is sound. 8 x 5.5 inches.
Seller: The Odd Book (ABAC, ILAB), Wolfville, NS, Canada
Price: US$832.19 + shipping
Description: First edition, number 217 of 250 copies, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "E. M. from A. M" with the recipient's subsequent gift inscription below "To Geoffrey D. Dobson from E. M. 1910". The Chronicle of Clemendy is Machen's first collection of short stories. This "heavily tongue-in-cheek collection was probably written to satisfy one of the affectations of the day, bowdlerized, sentimentalized Rabelais with Machen's remarkable facility of writing leading to amusing stories with a bookish joi de vivre" (Bleiler). Bleiler, Supernatural Fiction 1069; Goldstone & Sweetser 4a. Octavo. Original vellum-backed blue paper boards by Wyman & Sons, titles to spine in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Vellum browned, faint soiling to boards, book block square, light foxing to outer leaves and very occasionally to contents, repair visible to gutter of front free endpaper, sometime re-tipped in; a very good copy in bright condition.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom