[Rarebooks] FS: Arthur Machen's first book: THE ANATOMY OF TOBACCO, 1884

[Charles Agvent]

[MACHEN, Arthur] SILURIENSIS, Leolinus. THE ANATOMY OF TOBACCO: OR 
SMOKING METHODISED, DIVIDED, AND CONSIDERED AFTER A NEW FASHION. London: 
George Redway, 1884. First Edition. Arthur Machen's first book after the 
notoriously scarce ELEUSINIA of 1881, of which only one copy is known. 
Bound in full vellum as issued, with a later cloth slipcase. The paper 
is age-toned; the front hinge is gently cracked but tight. A library 
blindstamp is on two text leaves and a number is faintly visible at the 
base of the spine. A doctor's modern bookplate is on the front 
pastedown. Laid in is an interesting holograph letter from the New York 
bookseller Alfred Goldsmith presenting the book along with a little 
history of its publication. Spotting and soiling to vellum. Good copy of 
a scarce book.                   $650.00

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