[Rarebooks] FS: THE ANATOMY OF TOBACCO: OR SMOKING METHODISED, DIVIDED, AND CONSIDERED AFTER A NEW FASHION, 1884, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced:   Was $650,  Now  $450

[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. 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. 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. Spotting and soiling to vellum. Good copy of a 
scarce book. (#008633)        $450.00

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