The Works of Arthur Machen (9 vols) Caerleon Edition : Signed : Riviere & Son

The Caerleon Edition of the Works of Arthur Machen

Published by Martin Secker, London, 1923. Limited Edition. Complete in nine volumes and numbered 669 of 1,000. Volume I is signed by Arthur Machen. 8vo, half leather bindings by Riviere & Son (their stamp can be found at the bottom of the front endpapers). Each volume has five raised bands to the spine with gilt decorative tooling, and the titles, also in gilt, are in two compartments. The upper and lower boards are covered in russet coloured cloth. The top edge of the text blocks are gilt, and this is still lustrous and bright. Marble endpapers. Tissue guarded photograph of Machen as a frontispiece in volume I.

Volume I: The Great God Pan, The Inmost Light, The Red Hand
Volume II: The Three Imposters
Volume III: The Hill of Dreams
Volume IV: The Secret Glory
Volume V: Hieroglyphics
Volume VI: A Fragment of Life, The White People.
Volume VII: The Terror, The Bowmen, The Great Return
Volume VIII: Far Off Things
Volume IX: Things Near And Far

CONDITION
Near fine set, The russet-coloured leather is unfaded, with few signs of wear. All bindings are tight and square and all boards firmly attached and with no cracking to the inner or outer joints. All endpapers very good. All contents present to all 9 volumes. Pages in very good clean condition throughout the set and free from foxing, stains etc. Overall a fine set.

Arthur Machen (3 March 1863 – 15 December 1947) was the pen-name of Arthur Llewellyn Jones, a Welsh author and mystic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His novella The Great God Pan (1890; 1894) has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror, with Stephen King describing it as "Maybe the best [horror story] in the English language." He is also well known for "The Bowmen", a short story that was widely read as fact, creating the legend of the Angels of Mons.