Machen, Arthur. THE SHINING PYRAMID. Martin Secker, London, 1925.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-9 [10-12] 13-188 [189] [190: printer's imprint] [191-192: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original blue cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First British edition. One of 250 numbered large paper copies signed by Machen. Published in December 1924, preceding the British trade issue published in February 1925. Collects eight short stories and articles. A story and two articles, one revised and expanded for this edition, are collected here for the first time under this title, the remainder appeared earlier in the 1923 Covici-McGee edition. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural fiction 1080. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 147. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-158 (citing the U.S. edition). Reginald 09468. Goldstone and Sweetser 31a. Just a hint of rubbing to spine ends and corner tips, else a fine copy. The dust jacket it not present. (#170222)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.

Machen, Arthur. THE SHINING PYRAMID. Martin Secker, London, 1925.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-9 [10-12] 13-188 [189] [190: printer's imprint] [191-192: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original blue cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. One of 250 numbered large paper copies signed by Machen. Laid into this copy is a small photograph of Machen. Published in December 1924, preceding the British trade issue published in February 1925. Collects eight short stories and articles. A story and two articles, one revised and expanded for this edition, are collected here for the first time under this title, the remainder appeared earlier in the 1923 Covici-McGee edition. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural fiction 1080. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 147. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-158 (citing the U.S. edition). Reginald 09468. Goldstone and Sweetser 31a. Slight wear to the spine ends, a nearly fine copy without the dust jacket. (23961)

Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.

Machen, Arthur. THE SHINING PYRAMID. Martin Secker, 1925.

Price: US$574.20 + shipping

Description: THE SHINING PYRAMID, Martin Secker, 1925, first edition, vg+ in near vg dust-wrapper with some light chipping at spine extremities and upper flap folds. 1/250 copies specially bound and SIGNED by the author. Most uncommon in dust-wrapper.

Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.

Machen, Arthur. The Shining Pyramid; Signed edition of 250 copies. Martin Secker, London, 1925.

Price: US$633.16 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: An exceptional copy of this work by Arthur Machen. In a near fine dustwrapper and with the red cloth bright and clean. This is Number 132 of just 250 copies signed by Machen. Overall bright and clean with no marking. 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. 189pp.

Seller: Rickaro Books BA PBFA, Wakefield, United Kingdom