intro machen arthur (7 Ergebnisse)

Unknown. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good - Cash. General reader wear to the corners, edges, and cover. The covers/corners have some creasing. Small tears in the corners of the spine. Notations, highlighting and a few drawings to the pages. Previous owner's name inside. The pages show some general reader wear as well. The book is in good condition with some normal reader wear. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Acceptable. Hando, Fred J. (illustrator). Hard cover in good condition, with an unclipped dust jacket in acceptable condition. Dust jacket is marked, including notable tanning, creasing and wear. Fold points are chipped, with large open tears to front and rear head, smaller open tears at various points across the edges. Blue cloth boards are sunned, bumped corners, wear to edges. Pageblock tanned, this leading into pastedown edges. Within, pastedowns are illustrated; 'The Pleasant Land of Gwent', and the content is punctuated with Hando's b/w drawings. Pages are tightly bound, and content is unmarked. CN.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). First edition. A wonderful example of the scarce first edition of this collection of poems from Robert Silliman Hillyer, with an introduction from Arthur Machen. A scarce first edition.An early volume of poems from American poet and professor of English literature Robert Hillyer, who won a Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1934.Poems include 'Alone', 'Never Fear', and 'Black Magic'.With an introduction from Arthur Machen, the writer best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy and horror fiction. In the publisher's original cloth backed paper covered boards. Externally, excellent, with a touch of shelf wear to back strip tail, and minor rubbing to board perimeters. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 24 x 16.5 cm. xiii. 415 pp. Near Fine, unclipped jacket. Book is Fine: entirely clean and square with A1 binding. No issues.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). Arthur Machen's masterful collection of fourteen supernatural tales, in the vibrant original dust wrapper. A 1965 printing of a work first published in 1949.In the publisher's original clipped dust wrapper.Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece.Fourteen tales by Machen are included in this anthology, including 'The Great God Pan', 'Children of the Pool', and 'The Terror'.With the blind stamp of architecture collector and cardiologist Dr Derek Gair Gibson (1935-2021), to the front free endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with clipped dust wrapper. Minor area of paper residue to front board tail, with tide mark and handling marks to rear board. Small tide mark to front board tail. Blind stamp to front free endpaper. Light tidemark to fold over rear joint of dust wrapper. Light chipping to dust wrapper back strip head and tail. Two small closed tears to head of rear wrap. Rubbing to joints. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. The First UK printing published by Elkin Mathews, London in 1926. The BOOK is in Very Good++ condition with the original black cloth-backed boards, grey paper to sides, and gilt titles to the spine. A little pushing and rubbing at the spine tips. Light bumping and rubbing to the edges and corners. One previous owner's penned details to the upper blank end-paper. Early easing of the front lower hinge. Toning to the text-block and page edges due to the quality of the paper stock used. The WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good condition. Some loss at the corners and spine ends. The cover panels have become detached from the spine panel and one piece of the upper spine has become detached. The pieces however come together and present well in the removable Brodart archival cover. Some toning to the edges and the spine. The PORTFOLIO was published by John Gawsworth, London in 1936. The portfolio is in Very Good++ condition in printed brown/grey wrappers with the forty illustrations loosely inserted, as issued. Some light creasing and some short closed tears to the portfolio wrapper edges. Some light age related markings to the wrappers. The complete set of the 40 woodcut proofs on japon are each captioned, numbered, and signed by Frederick Carter in pencil. The illustrations are exactly the same as those appearing in the book. Some of the plates are a little creased at the edges and have some sporadic light spotting and toning to the edges. A very scarce copy of Carter's book of alchemical illustrations, with the rare large format portfolio which is one of only 25 such sets issued. Frederick Carter (1883-1967) started producing prints in 1908, and illustrated various books and periodicals between 1914 and 1937 including 'The Cafe Royal Cocktail Book'. 'The Dragon of the Alchemists' was first published by Elkin Mathews as a collection of esoteric essays elucidating the symbolic illustrations, accompanied by an Arthur Machen introduction: 'The only way of telling the truth is by means of the symbol: the part that is put for the whole; that whole which for our lips is ineffable. The world is a cypher. He does best who hints most closely at the secret message latent in the signs exhibited to us.' Frederick Carter became a mystic symbolist artist, involved with Aleister Crowley and worked on illustrations for D.H. Lawrence's 'Apocalypse'. He was also a friend of Austin Osmond Spare and helped with his theories of automatic drawing. From 1922 he taught etching at Liverpool School of Art and during the 1930's he abandoned printmaking for writing but continued to paint until the late 1950's. His work is in the collections of the British Museum and The V&A. As a friend of D. H. Lawrence, he sent the manuscript of 'The Dragon of the Alchemist's to Lawrence for his comments. (Horne p. 138). Complete portfolios such as this one are extremely scarce and rarely appear on the market. More images available on request. Ashton rare Books welcomes direct contact.