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North Yorkshire: Tartarus Press, 2019. First edition, Hardcover, SIGNED, Limited, New in dust jacket,. North Yorkshire: Tartarus Press:, 2019. First edition, Hardcover, SIGNED, Limited, New in dust jacket, 290 pp.<br/> This edition limited to 350 copies. <br /> "Read about the most dangerous man in the West; the poem written by a stuffed crocodile; the alchemist called the great-nephew to the Queen of Faerie; aesthetes, dandies, visionaries, antiquaries, fortune tellers and fakirs, forgotten writers and much more.<br /> Mark Valentine's third collection of essays explores the curious byways of literature and lore in a similar manner to his earlier volumes Haunted by Books and A Country Still All Mystery.<br /> Taking its title from an encounter in Thomas De Quincey's youthful wanderings, Valentine's writing shares that author's delight in the arcane, the recondite and the obscure."

North Yorkshire, United Kingdom: Tartarus Press, 2019. Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Printing. 290 pp. Original blue boards, , in a very good plus jacket which is not price clipped. long scrape to rear panel, slightly indents on rear board. Owner Plate laid in loosely. One of 350 signed by Mark Valentine to the title page. .