[Rarebooks] Offer: 50% Off, 1914 Algernon Blackwood in DJ (!)

[Michael John Thompson]

This has been in stock for a while and could use 
a nice home. Offered at 50% off; i.e., $425 Cdn; post extra.


BLACKWOOD, Algernon.

INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES.

First Edition, Colonial Issue, in Dust Jacket.

London: Macmillan and Company 1914.

First Colonial Edition. Octavo, original light 
blue paper-covered boards stamped in darker blue 
(vertical stripes and wreaths binding), gilt 
titles. 366 pp. + 8 pp publisher's catalogue 
inserted at rear, dated 5.7.14. Issued as volume 
642 in Macmillan's Empire Library. The 
publisher's catalogue bound in at the end of the 
text is for MACMILLAN'S EMPIRE LIBRARY OF 
COPYRIGHT BOOKS, "For Circulation only in India 
and the British Dominions over the Seas". Titles 
up to number 640 are listed, and all volumes are 
available in paper covers at 2s. 6d.; or 'cloth' 
covers at 3s.6d. per copy. Minute chipping at 
spine head and mild tanning to the spine panel, a 
nice copy, very good, in the very rare dust 
jacket which has a portrait of the author on the 
front panel. The jacket is frayed and worn along 
the edges and there is some internal repair to 
the spine panel, where a missing section has been 
neatly reinforced with matching paper; very 
neatly done. Both front and rear jacket flaps 
have separated and have been re-affixed with 
internal paper, there is a small piece of tape on 
the inside of the rear flap. Overall, a good 
example of the extremely rare dust jacket. 
Colonial editions typically preceded the 
regularly published domestic UK editions but tend 
to suffer the ravages of the Colonies; even 
simply nice copies are very scarce, nice copies in jackets are rare.

¶ Blackwood's sixth short story collection, 
written at the height of his powers. Stories 
included are 'The Regeneration of Lord Ernie'; 
'The Sacrifice'; 'The Damned'; 'A Descent into 
Egypt'; and 'Wayfarers'. S. T. Joshi has stated 
that "his work is more consistently meritorious 
than any weird writer's except Dunsany's" and 
that this particular short story collection "may 
be the premier weird collection of this or any other century".    $850.00


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