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Later edition, with a new introduction by the author. Hard cover, 8vo, in publisher's red cloth boards, with gold lettering to spine. COLLATION: ix [3], 307, [1] pp. CONDITION: Very Good. Spine sunned. Light spotting to covers. Some foxing to fore-edge of text block. ** AUTHOR Arthur Machen (1863-1947), had a deep love of his native Wales and its Celtic past, and his early writings such as "The Great God Pan" (1894) evoked the horrors of a parallel world inhabited by demons and pagan unknowables, and the thin wall protecting us from them. ** "The Chronicle of Clemendy", first published in 1888, is a very early work by Machen, written when he was trying to find his voice in literature. This is a medieval celebration of beer and storytelling - something Machen lived out in his time at Amersham, where he held forth at the nearby King's Arms Pub telling stories and smoking a pipe. Chapters include: "Epistle Dedicatory", "Master Perrot's Discourse of Ale", "The Portreeve's Gaudy-Day", "Strange Story of a Red Jar", "The Spigot Clerk's First Tale", "How the Folk of Abergavenny Were Pestered by an Accursed Knight", "Lord Maltworm's First Tale", "How a Man of Caerleon Found a Great Treasure", "The Rubrican's First Tale: What Fell out in the Ancient Keep of Caldicot", "The Tankard Marshall's First Tale: The Quest of the Dial and the Vane", "The Spigot Clerk's Second Tale: How a Knight of Uske Kept Guard over a Tree", "The Portreeve's Solemnity", "The Tale Told by the Seigneur of La Roche Nemours: The Quaint History of a Lord of Gwent and how His Wife Desired to Smell a Rose", "The Journey Homeward", "Signor Piero Latini's Tale: How the Duke of San Giuliano Made Build a High Wall", "The Lord Maltworm's Second Tale: The Affair Done at the House with the Lattice", "The Rubrican's Second Tale: The Triumph of Love", "Epilogue". ** REFS: Goldstone & Sweetser (1973) 4d, p. 22.
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$60.00