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Second impression of the first trade issue. With the scarce dust jacket. Hard cover, 8vo, in publisher's red cloth boards, with spine lettering in gold. COLLATION: 141 [2] pp. Dust jacket flaps contain advertising by the publisher, and the back of the dust jacket features an advertisement for the Caerleon Edition of the works of Arthur Machen. CONDITION: Near Fine, with covers fresh and bright. Some pages unopened. Small abrasion to bottom of title page. Dust jacket worn at edges, with small chips and tears (now protected in mylar). ** AUTHOR Arthur Machen, (1863-1947) grew up wandering the countryside of his native Wales, and continued the habit when he moved to London with aspirations to become a writer. Subsisting on bread, green tea, and tobacco, he would wander the streets of London and marvel at odd remnants of the past surviving amongst all the new construction. "The London Adventure" is his telling of that time of his youth from the distance of age and as if he were sitting opposite you in a nook of a tavern. ** Machen 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. Machen's best works are his gothic novel, "The Hill of Dreams" (1907), and his equally remarkable biographies, "Far Off Things" (1922), "Things Near and Far" (1923), and "The London Adventure" (1924). REFS: Goldstone & Sweetser (1973) 27c, p. 48.
Ref: AMACH 9346
$325.00