The Caerleon Edition of the Works of Arthur Machen
MACHEN, Arthur
500 SETS WERE PRINTED
Published: Martin Secker, [1923]
Stock code: 15875
Price: £1,180.00
9 vols., 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present); original olive buckram, upper boards blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt backs, gilt tops, uncut, backstrips faded (but gilt just legible) else a very good, bright, clean, crisp set.
EDITION LIMITED TO 500 NUMBERED SETS SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR IN FIRST VOLUME . A further 500 numbered sets were produced for sale in the US. The definitive edition of Machen's works. The set comprises Vol. I: The Great God Pan, The Inmost Light, The Red Hand; Vol. II: The Three Imposters; Vol. III: The Hill of Dreams; Vol. IV: The Secret Glory; Vol. V: Hieroglyphics; Vol. VI: A Fragment of Life, The White People; Vol. VII: The Terror, The Bowmen, The Great Return; Vol. VIII: Far Off Things; Vol. IX: Things Near and Far. NCBEL IV, p.645.