Search Results: the gothic quest a history of by montague summers

Mill Press, 2011-03-04. Paperback. Good.

NY: Russell & Russell. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1964. Hardcover. Usual xlib marks. The book would otherwise have graded "Fine ." ; Ex-Library; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 443 pages .

Fair. Has wear, ex-library marks, missing dust cover.

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London: Fortune Press, 1969. 1st thus limited edition; #610 or 960 copies; red c w/some moderate sunning and wear at extremities; 443 clean, unmarked page/Index of novels/bibliographical references . 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by b/w Plates. 8 Vo.

Fortune Press, 1969. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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London: Fortune Press, 1969. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. Good. red cloth, gilt lettering, no dust jacket, 443 pp second printing spine worn Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

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London: Fortune Press, 1969. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. Good. red cloth, gilt lettering, no dust jacket, 443 pp covers are discolored Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

London: Fortune Press, 1969. 2nd edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 443 p: xvi pl. (incl. front., ports); 23 cm. Notes: ""I have elected to deal mainly with those aspects of Gothic romance which ... find their fullest expression in the work of Matthew Gregory Lewis.""--p. 14. ""Index of novels"": p. [432]-443. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Contents: The romantic feeling -- The publishers and the circulating libraries -- Influences from abroad -- Historical Gothic -- Matthew Gregory Lewis -- Francis Lathom; T.J. Horsley Curties; William Henry Ireland; and others -- Surrealism and the Gothic novel. Subjects: Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory) 1775-1818. English fiction 18th century History and criticism. Romanticism England. Gothic revival (Literature) Great Britain. Romanticism Great Britain. Genre: Illustrated.

The Fortune press, 1938-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1938; numbered 619 out of 950 copies; green boards with white spine titles and illustrated cover; soiling and creasing to spine; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; no jacket; Ex-Library with typical stamps and markings. 443 pages.

London: The Fortune Press,, [1938]. First edition, first impression, number 943 of 950 numbered copies. The Gothic Quest was the first instalment of Summers's two part study of the gothic novel and was followed by A Gothic Bibliography in 1940, a work still much referenced by collectors today. Montague Summers was an eccentric scholar ordained as deacon in the Church of England in 1908. "Rumours of studies in Satanism and a charge of pederasty, of which he was acquitted, terminated this phase of his career", and in 1909 he was received into the Church of Rome. Despite presenting himself as a Catholic priest from then on, asking to be addressed as Reverend and holding mass in his own chapel, no record of his ordination has ever been found. He is best known for his 1928 translation of the Malleus Maleficarum, to which he added much of his own character, and which helped cement the work in the popular imagination. Alongside his occult studies, to which he lent his complete credulity, Summers devoted… Read More