A unique and highly collectable association copy of the true First Edition from the library of Dr Glen T.Cavaliero (1927-2019) the eminent Cambridge academic and a pivotal figure in the critical revival of Arthur Machen. Author of the seminal work "The Supernatural and English Fiction"(1995) the book has been characteristically rebound in quarter vellum [top edge gilt]and a highly appropriate (though unidentified) engraving of Eve and the Serpent attached to the marbled pastedown.The free endpaper is signed G.T.Cavaliero and there are minor pencil notes inc drawing attention to the miss-binding at pp 505 London: . Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-xiii [xiv-xvi] [1-2] 3-513 [514] [515: ad for The Three Impostors] [516: blank], inserted tissue guarded frontispiece illustration by Sidney H. Sime. Collects the contents of THE GREAT GOOD PAN (1894) and THE THREE IMPOSTORS (1895), the latter with revisions and omissions, plus the first book appearance of three tales, "A Fragment of Life," "The White People," and "The Red Hand." ". Machen's most important collection." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 277. [Reference: Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-135. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1072. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 147. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-157. Bleiler (1978), p. 130. Reginald 09464. Goldstone and Sweetser 10e].