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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.

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. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1910. No Edition Remarks. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen markings to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Minor sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Minor splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Visible wear marks to boards.

Bertram Dobell, 1910. Hardcover. Good. 1910. No Edition Stated. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Clean pages. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Rear hinge cracked. Pages are rough cut. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and soiling to boards. Notable tanning to spine.

HardPress Publishing, 2012-08-01. Paperback. Good.

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.

UsedVeryGood. signs of little wear on the cover.

UsedLikeNew. Remainder mark

HardPress Publishing, 2012-08-01. Paperback. Good.

New.

Paperback / softback. New.

HardPress Publishing, 2013-01-28. Paperback. Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2008-02-21. Paperback. Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2008-02-21. Paperback. Used:Good.

Nabu Press, 2011-09-09. Paperback. Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Paperback. Good.

New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

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.