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London.: Watts & Co., 1938. xiii, 110pp, frontispiece. The Thinker's Library No. 28.. Reprint.. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Reeves and Turner, 1888. Hardback. The cloth binding has some wear and is dull; it is sound. The endpapers are stained. There is some light edge foxing throughout, the text is otherwise clean.

By turns allegorical, visionary, and satirical, The City of Dreadful Night and Other Writings combines Thomson's poetic magnum opus with selections from his poetry and belletristic prose pieces, written for The Secular Review, National Reformer, and Cope's Tobacco Plant
in the 1860s and 70s. Harrowing and musical in its nightmarish visions like "Insomnia" and in the title poem, wryly comic and philosophical in his prose essays, here is an unheralded voice of a Victorian generation, which came of age with the publicization of Darwin's findings, and saw humanity definitively condemned to a godless globe.
"It is long since I have been so interested in a volume as in that of the Essays and Phantasies… The motions of his mind in the best of the essays are utterly untrammeled and independent, and yet falling naturally into grace and poetry." — Herman Melville
James Thomson, penname "B. V." (23 November 1834 – 3 June 1882) was a Scottish writer of visionary verse and belletristic prose, and a… Read More

Bertram Dobell, 1910-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback with some spine wear and colouring of pages, but only minimal. Clean copy in good condition considering age.

Bertram Dobell, 1910-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. in x in x in. Dated 1899. Ex library book, usual markings. Some wear to spine and book covers, and discolouring due to age. Still very useable. Clean copy.

GB: Watts (Thinker's Library), 1932. Bit cocked. Book is in nearly fine condition with only slightest signs of wear and/or age. Dw has only slight edge loss but spine is a bit browned and minro edgw ear. . 1st Thus. Hardback. nrFine/nrVG DW.

Methuen. 1932 BCA first thus edition hardback; good copy with signs of ageing; with good unclipped dj; UK dealer, immediate dispatch . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition Thus.. 1932.

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