HIEROGLYPHICS: A NOTE UPON ECSTASY IN LITERATURE. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5165 [166] [167: printer's imprint] [168: blank], original yellow cloth, printed paper label affixed to spine panel, top edge stained black, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, green and yellow decorated endpapers. Third edition, reset, U.S. issue (printed in England from the UK plates). Literary criticism with some observations on weird fiction. Machen "wrote a few works in addition to his penny dreads which are interesting, challenging, and artistically conceived and executed. The first of these is HIEROGLYPHICS, a book of impressionistic criticism which analyzes four of the world's great books in terms of the principle of ecstasy and which yields a surprisingly fresh version of their value." - Sweetser, "Introduction," Goldstone and Sweetser, A Bibliography of Arthur Machen, p. 13. Goldstone and Sweetser 8j. Slight spine lean, cloth just a bit dusty, a tight, very good copy. (#158679).
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