Search Results: the three imposters by machen arthur

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Hayward:: Chaosium,. Fine. 2007. Paperback. 1568821328 . Part of the Call of Cthulhu Fiction series. Edited by S. T Joshi. Second printing (paperback). Fine in illustrated wraps. .

Paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

Paperback / softback. New.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. Hard cover. Good/No jacket. The cover is worn and smudged, particularly around the edges of the cover. The spine is tanned, but not affecting legibility. The top and bottom edges of the spine are bumped and slightly chipped. The bottom edge of the text block has a small smudge, but not visible on the page margins. Spine is slightly shaken, but binding is secure. Some pages are crayon markings one the page margins, but is not affecting any legibility, otherwise all other pages are clean and unmarked.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

John Baker, 1964-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. in x in x in. Ex-library book, usual markings. Re-printed in 1968. Hardback with purple dust cover. Well read copy with some spine wear but still useable, colouring of page edges and dust cover due to age.

John Baker Ltd., London, 1964. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. A new edition of the author's highly influential collection of interwoven horror stories. 8vo. 200pp. Blue cloth lettered in silver at the spine. Photographic portrait frontispiece. A touch of light spotting to the top- and fore edge. Very good indeed in lightly chafed, marked and creased non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Symons' nine-page introduction precedes a prologue and seven stories..

Knopf, New York, 1923. 1st Edition thus. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition. Circulating library stamp on tp This is the first US edition. Bookplate. spine sunned, a bit cocked. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Horror; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 23149. .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First American edition. Very good. Octavo. Publisher's unfortunate choice of yellow cloth, paper spine label, decorative endpapers. 287,[3] pp., a great many unopened. Cloth is rather smudged, spine darkened with label chipped and also darkened, a testament to binding choice errors, else a very good copy without the dust jacket that might have saved it.  "The novel comprises several weird tales and culminates in a denouement of deadly horror, connected with a secret society devoted to debauched pagan rites. The three impostors of the title are members of this society who weave a web of deception in the streets of London-relating the aforementioned weird tales in the process-as they search for a missing Roman coin commemorating an infamous orgy by the Emperor Tiberius and close in on their prey: 'the young man with spectacles.'  Publisher John Lane of The Bodley Head, wary of the atmosphere following the trial of Oscar Wilde, asked Machen to expurgate his… Read More

NY: Knopf. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's cloth, spine label, decorative endpages, brown topstain. Cloth is grubby, label is faded/hard to read. Bookplate remnants to fep. Firm and square. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 287 pages .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First edition thus. Hardcover. 287 pages. Includes "The Three Imposters" and "The Red Hand." A very good copy in yellow cloth boards that are moderately soiled, with some toning to the spine and spine label and some other minor wear. No dust jacket. Uncommon in this edition.

London: Martin Secker, 1923. 8vo. 222 pp. Green cloth with top edge gilt. Very Good. Two small spots to front board. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

London and Boston : John Lane / Roberts Bros, 1895. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition, 290 pages plus John Lane publisher ads at back. Stamp to front free endpaper, else very good. Cover design by Aubrey Beardsley.

Boston, MA: Roberts Brothers. Collectible-Very Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1895. First American Edition. Hardcover. Beardsley also designed the title page . 12mo., 215 pp. plus ads .

London / Boston: John Lane / Roberts Bros, 1895. Near fine.. Unique copy of the first edition of Machen's impossibly eerie episodic novel, in an eerie handmade vernacular dust jacket, from the library of actor Wyndham Goldie. Published as no. XIX in John Lane's Keynotes series, THE THREE IMPOSTERS is a maze of horrors and nested narratives, replete with cultic murders, antique rituals, and obscure orgies, culminating in a dreadful scene from which Machen grudgingly consented, at the publisher's request, to remove the word "entrails." The arrest and trial of Oscar Wilde, with whom John Lane's publishing ventures were heavily associated in the press, inspired Lane's newfound timidity regarding frightful goings-on, graphically depicted; the remainder of the book's gruesome contents were, however, left uncensored. With the original painted jacket, striking example of book ownership intervention. 7.5'' x 4.75''. Original dark green and grey decorative cloth with gilt-lettered spine, designed by Aubrey… Read More