Arthur Machen. The Three Imposters. Alfred A. Knopf, 1923.

Price: US$40.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: The cover is worn and smudged, particularly around the edges of the cover. The spine is tanned, but not affecting legibility. The top and bottom edges of the spine are bumped and slightly chipped. The bottom edge of the text block has a small smudge, but not visible on the page margins. Spine is slightly shaken, but binding is secure. Some pages are crayon markings one the page margins, but is not affecting any legibility, otherwise all other pages are clean and unmarked.

Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

[Horror]. MACHEN, Arthur. THE THREE IMPOSTERS. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1923.

Price: US$80.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Octavo. Publisher's unfortunate choice of yellow cloth, paper spine label, decorative endpapers. 287,[3] pp., a great many unopened. Cloth is rather smudged, spine darkened with label chipped and also darkened, a testament to binding choice errors, else a very good copy without the dust jacket that might have saved it. "The novel comprises several weird tales and culminates in a denouement of deadly horror, connected with a secret society devoted to debauched pagan rites. The three impostors of the title are members of this society who weave a web of deception in the streets of London-relating the aforementioned weird tales in the process-as they search for a missing Roman coin commemorating an infamous orgy by the Emperor Tiberius and close in on their prey: 'the young man with spectacles.' Publisher John Lane of The Bodley Head, wary of the atmosphere following the trial of Oscar Wilde, asked Machen to expurgate his manuscript; Machen refused. Ultimately, however, Machen agreed to revise the description of the final scene of the book, in order to purge one word that Lane had found to be too explicit; the word was entrails" - synopsis from Wikipedia.

Seller: Second Wind Books, LLC, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.

arthur machen. THE THREE IMPOSTORS. alfred knopf, 1923.

Price: US$87.00 + shipping

Description: very good yellow binding, soiling, some writing on the first page, somewhat weakening front hinge

Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, webster, NY, U.S.A.

Machen, Arthur. The Three Impostors. ALFRED A. KNOPF 1923, AUGUST, NY, 1923.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: General wear: previous owner name, small bookplate, cracked hinges, fragile page ends, previous owner marking on last page DATE PUBLISHED: 1923, AUGUST EDITION: 287

Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.

MACHEN, Arthur. The Three Imposters. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1923.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Description: First edition thus. Hardcover. 287 pages. Includes "The Three Imposters" and "The Red Hand." A very good copy in yellow cloth boards that are moderately soiled, with some toning to the spine and spine label and some other minor wear. No dust jacket. Uncommon in this edition.

Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.