Author: BLACKWOOD, ALGERNON
Title: Dudley and Gilderoy
Description: New York: E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1929. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good condition and has a Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some edge wear, rubbing, bumping and bits of fraying. The boards are clean and unfaded. The text pages are generally clean and bright. The endpapers are noticeably toned. The dust jacket has edge wear, several small edge nicks and tears and noticeable chipping to the spine ends and corners. "Throughout his adult life, he was an occasional essayist for various periodicals. In his late thirties, he moved back to England and started to write stories of the supernatural. He was successful, writing at least "Blackwood's life parallels his work more neatly than perhaps that of any other ghost story writer. Like his lonely but fundamentally optimistic protagonists, he was a combination of mystic and outdoorsman; when he wasn't steeping himself in occultism, including Rosicrucianism and Buddhism, he was likely to be skiing or mountain climbing." Blackwood was a member of one of the factions of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, as was his contemporary Arthur Machen. Cabalistic themes influence his novel The Human Chord. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good in Good dust jacket .

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