Lot 160
Machen (Arthur) Autograph manuscript essay "Introduction" [On Paganism] signed by the author, 14pp.,, [1924]
Hammer Price: £1,800
Description
Machen (Arthur) Autograph manuscript essay "Introduction" [On Paganism], 14pp., recto only, in black ink and pencil on ruled paper, signed by the author on first page, numerous corrections and revisions, vertical fold with some splitting to ends, unbound, [1924]; with mimeograph proof sheets, unbound sheets for the first edition of Mitchell S. Buck's "Afterglow" (for which this work formed the introduction), an envelope addressed in the author's hand to Buck (extremities rather worn), and the first English edition of Machen's "On Paganism", one of 200 copies, Tartarus Press, 1998, all housed together in custom folding chemises and morocco-backed slip-case, 8vo.
⁂ "All words are more or less misconstrued and misunderstood; none more grievously than the word 'Paganism'."
Mitchell S. Buck (1887-1959) was an American poet and classical scholar. The present essay was published as an introduction to his prose work Afterglow in 1924 before being given a new title of "On Paganism" and published in the UK by the Tartarus Press in 1998.
Description
Machen (Arthur) Autograph manuscript essay "Introduction" [On Paganism], 14pp., recto only, in black ink and pencil on ruled paper, signed by the author on first page, numerous corrections and revisions, vertical fold with some splitting to ends, unbound, [1924]; with mimeograph proof sheets, unbound sheets for the first edition of Mitchell S. Buck's "Afterglow" (for which this work formed the introduction), an envelope addressed in the author's hand to Buck (extremities rather worn), and the first English edition of Machen's "On Paganism", one of 200 copies, Tartarus Press, 1998, all housed together in custom folding chemises and morocco-backed slip-case, 8vo.
⁂ "All words are more or less misconstrued and misunderstood; none more grievously than the word 'Paganism'."
Mitchell S. Buck (1887-1959) was an American poet and classical scholar. The present essay was published as an introduction to his prose work Afterglow in 1924 before being given a new title of "On Paganism" and published in the UK by the Tartarus Press in 1998.
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