4 Arthur Machen first editions are documented on this shelf, from The Great God Pan (1894) to The Hill of Dreams (1907) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Arthur Machen title from later printings and book-club copies — the publisher and year to expect, the number-line or edition-statement conventions, and the tells that show up in online listings.
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- The Great God Pan — 1894 · John Lane, The Bodley HeadIssued by John Lane at The Bodley Head in 1894 (paired with the shorter story 'The Inmost Light') as part of the Keynotes Series, collating [6],168,[8] pages plus a 16-page publisher's catalogue dated 1895 bound in at the rear and headed by Francis Adams's 'Essays in Modernity.' The title page is printed in red and black with an illustration of Pan by Aubrey Beardsley, and the binding is dyed 'Crown Sovereign'…. Later Bodley Head reprints and the American Roberts Brothers (Boston) edition drop the Beardsley cloth design and substitute undated or later advertisement leaves.
- The Three Impostors; or, The Transmutations — 1895 · John Lane, The Bodley HeadIssued as Volume XIX of John Lane's Keynotes Series in 1895, collating [1-8][1]2-290 pages, with a 14-page Keynotes catalogue and a separate 16-page general catalogue dated 1895 bound in at the rear. The title page, printed in orange and black, was designed by Aubrey Beardsley, and the original binding is pictorial blue cloth with the front panel stamped in white, the spine in white and gold, and the publisher's…. Twentieth-century reprints (including the Knopf and Boni & Liveright editions) use plain cloth bindings without the Beardsley blue-and-white design and lack the dated 1895 catalogues at the rear.
- The House of Souls — 1906 · E. Grant Richards, LondonOctavo, collating [i-iv] v-xiii [xiv-xvi] [1-2] 3-513 [514], with [515] carrying an advertisement for The Three Impostors and [516] blank; inserted frontispiece illustrated by Sidney H. Sime. Bound in original pictorial grey cloth with a cover design by Sime stamped in black, gold and light green. THERE IS A BINDING STATE POINT: the first binding has 'E. GRANT RICHARDS' at the base of the spine, while the second…. The census claim is confirmed: London, E. Grant Richards, 1906 is the true first and the first book appearance of 'The White People.' The American edition from Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1922 is a genuinely different book rather than a reprint — it runs 286 pp., drops the last two stories of the London edition, and prints 'A Fragment of Life,' 'The Great God Pan,' 'The White People,' 'The Inmost Light' and…. No book-club issue is documented for the 1906 Grant Richards edition. The principal traps are the 1922 Knopf American edition (different, shorter contents), a later Grant Richards reissue dated 1923 that is offered by some sellers under the 1906 description, and the Tartarus Press hardcover reissues (North Yorkshire, first and second printings, 427 pp.), which reuse Sime's frontispiece and board designs and can….
- The Hill of Dreams — 1907 · E. Grant Richards, LondonThe London Grant Richards issue is bound in brown buckram/cloth with gilt lettering to the spine and upper board, top edge gilt, white endpapers, and collates to 309 pages. It carries a frontispiece by S. H. Sime, normally with its tissue guard present. Dealers describing the first issue cite the absence of a publisher's catalogue at the rear and a list of the author's works running to page [311]; note that this…. The true first is the London edition: E. Grant Richards, 1907. Dana Estes & Company, Boston, issued the book in the United States in 1907 in red cloth, 309 pages, with the Sime frontispiece; sources consulted uniformly style the Estes a 'first American edition,' which places the Grant Richards ahead of it. The census hypothesis that the Estes issue was made up from imported English sheets is NOT documented in any…. No book-club issue documented for the 1907 printings. The reprint traps are American: Albert & Charles Boni (1915), Frank Shay (1917), and the 1920s Alfred A. Knopf editions are all later reprints, not firsts. A 1915 account records that the Estes stock was exhausted and the book was reissued by a New York firm, so later US printings are common relative to the London first.
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