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Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition. Publishers green cloth with decoration and titles in black, publishers "keynote" device to rear board. Cover design by Aubrey Beardsley repeated on title page. Large bookplate to front fixed endpaper that largely covers a previous owners name stamp. Spine panel tanned with titles barely legible, a VERY GOOD copy.
Seller: Nicholas J. Certo, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1894 London: John Lane, Vigo St. Boston: Roberts Bros. University Press: John Wilson and Son Cambridge. Decorated light blue cloth small hardcover with tissue guarded title page. Tight and unmarked. 234 pages + 6 pp adverts. A51 Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal
Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.
Machen, Arthur. The Great God Pan and the Inmost Light. John Lane, London, 1894.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of this influential collection from the Welsh mystic and author, Arthur Llewellyn Jones, or Arthur Machen (1863-1947). Bleiler writes in hisGuide to Supernatural Fiction: .Stevenson[ian] in style, narrative technique, and in the concept of London as a Baghdad of the Arabian Nights -- i.e., a place where anything strange might happen, and curious stories almost automatically turn up." The title novella was in fact a big influence on H.P. Lovecraft in the coming years, especially on his famous story,The Dunwich Horror.He openly praised Machen's work: "No one could begin to describe the cumulative suspense and ultimate horror with which every paragraph abounds." A cornerstone offin de siè cle horror fiction. Barron, Fantasy and Horror 199. Bleiler 1070. Locke, Spectrum of Fantasy Pg. 147. 8vo, [vi], 2-168 plus 16pp publisher's ads at rear. Illustrated title and cover design by Aubrey Beardsley. Publisher's illustrated black cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Spine slightly cocked, spine ends and corners bruised. Pale stain to bottom edge of rear board. Former owner's name on ffep else clean and sound internally and very good
Seller: Peruse the Stacks, Gig Harbor, WA, U.S.A.
Arthur Machen. The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen (First Edition). John Lane, London, 1894.
Price: US$1600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen (First Edition) Minor bumping and rubbing to corners and spine ends. Spine hinges beginning to crack. 'The Great God Pan is a novella by Welsh writer Arthur Machen. A version of the story was published in the magazine The Whirlwind (1890), then Machen revised and extended it for its book form, together with The Inmost Light. "Two excellent novella-length supernatural works which caused controversy at the time of Publication for pagan themes and mild sexual content" Wilson, pp338. The novella influenced the work of horror writers such as Bram Stoker, H. P. Lovecraft, and Stephen King, and has been adapted for the stage twice.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. [vi], 168, 16 pp. Bound in publisher's dark cloth with white stamping on front and rear boards, gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with light shelf wear, old bookseller's catalogue entry pasted onto paste down, typical offsetting to endpapers. An attractive copy. The Great God Pan is an enduringly popular Gothic horror novella, quite scandalous in its time for its comparatively frank depictions of sexuality. It would inspire Bram Stoker's Dracula, Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror, and works by Clark Ashton Smith and Stephen King.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.