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The London Adventure or the Art of Wandering [Trade Issue]

Machen, Arthur

Publication: London: Martin Secker, 1924. First Edition.

Notes: A collection of autobiographical essays organized around Machen's exploration of London.

Goldstone and Sweetser, A Bibliography of Arthur Machen, 27b.

144 pages (including the preliminaries).

Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing, trade issue; no indication of later printings on the copyright page). A near fine copy in red cloth in a very good dust jacket with tanning to the spine and shallow loss at the top of the spine.

With an autograph letter signed in a hand-addressed envelope mounted to the front pastedown. The Oct. 24, 1923, letter—one-page to Frederick B. Eddy—accompanied some books Machen inscribed (not present) and it says, "I have just passed the final proofs of the forthcoming book, "The London Adventure" but I don't know when it is to be published."

Item No: #366298

Price: $500