THE CANNING WONDER

by Arthur Machen

$150 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition · Signed

London: Chatto & Windus, 1925. Octavo, pp. i-iv v-x xi-xii 1-249 250 251: blank 252: printer's imprint , eight inserted plates, original orange boards with Japan vellum spine panel, spine panel stamped in gold, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition. One of 130 numbered copies signed by Machen, this being number 10. An account of Elizabeth Canning's inexplicable disappearance for thirty days in 1753

  • Binding: Leather

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