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. Chronicle of Clemendy ; or, The History of the IX. Joyous Journeys. [inscribed]. Privately printed for the Society of Pantagruelists, Carbonnek, 1888.

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

MACHEN, Arthur.. The Chronicle of Clemendy.. Carbonnek [London]: Privately printed for the Society of Pantagruelists, 1888, 1888.

Price: US$836.14 + 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