R. A. Gilbert [ed.] — Arthur Machen&Apos;S Occult Catalogues

Leyburn, Friends of Arthur Machen; Tartarus Press, 2019. First edition. Cloth. A fine limited edition produced for The Friends of Arthur Machen, containing reproductions of his catalogues for the London occult bookseller George Redway. A limited first edition of 360 copies printed for subscribers of The Friends of Arthur Machen. A superb printing of the catalogues produced by Machen for the occult London bookseller George Redway, who offered the Welsh author work in 1885, including excerpts from Machen's own autobiographies, letters, essays and fiction.  Monochrome portrait frontispiece.  Offering Machen's catalogue, The Literature of Occultism and Archaeology, along with the Frederick Hockley catalogue of 1887. Arthur Machen was the pen-name of Arthur Llewellyn Jones, a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction, including the now considered classic novella, The Great God Pan, which Stephen King once described as "Maybe the best [horror story] in the English language".  This copy previously owned by Godfrey Brangham, the co-editor of Arthur Machen's Selected Letters (1988) and of a selection of Machen's introductions and forewords, The Day's Portion (1991).  In the original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, lovely, with minimal signs of shelf wear and the bookplate of Godfrey Brangham to the front paste down. Dust wrapper is fine. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.