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MACHEN, ARTHUR. 1863-1947. Autograph Manuscript Signed ("Arthur Machen"), 26 pp, 4to, n.p., [c.1926], image 1
MACHEN, ARTHUR. 1863-1947. Autograph Manuscript Signed ("Arthur Machen"), 26 pp, 4to, n.p., [c.1926], image 2
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MACHEN, ARTHUR. 1863-1947.
Autograph Manuscript Signed ("Arthur Machen"), 26 pp, 4to, n.p., [c.1926],

12 March 2019, 14:00 EDT
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MACHEN, ARTHUR. 1863-1947.

Autograph Manuscript Signed ("Arthur Machen"), 26 pp, 4to, n.p., [c.1926], being the prospectus and introduction to Notes and Queries, excellent condition, with corrections in Machen's hand, bound in boards with gilt-lettered burgundy label to upper cover. Accompanied by a signed, limited edition of the book.
Provenance: John Thomas Head Collection (Butterfields March 22, 2000); George Robert Minkoff (receipt laid in).

Notes and Queries is a collection of Machen's articles written nearly twenty years earlier. He begins his introduction: "Now it is said that if a man thinks at forty as he does at twenty, he is either a genius or a fool. I do not know whether this dictum apply to forty and sixty; but if it does, I deny it altogether. I know I am not a genius; and I don't think that I am absolutely a fool. I find myself in agreement with every opinion, or almost every opinion, that I advanced nearly twenty years ago ... To take one instance: there is the essay entitled 'England and Revolution.' The writer of the book which I was reviewing had some phrase about 'backward and undeveloped peoples,' which seems to have annoyed me a good deal, and I am glad to find that it annoys me still."

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