Containing A Number Of Things

by Vincent Starrett, Christopher Millard, R.B. Russell (Introduction)

Vincent Starrett and Christopher Millard. Correspondence on the books of Arthur Machen, 1920-1923.

Contains letters between the Machen collector and his dealer, and facsimiles of obscure Machen items.

Printed by the New Venture Press and sewn and bound by hand. 74 numbered copies for advance subscribers, hardbound with jacket. Out of print.

A second issue of 32 numbered copies was made available in May, 2011.

Contents:
1- Introduction (R.B. Russell)
3- Christopher Millard (A.J.A. Symons)
9- Vincent Starrett (R.B. Russell)
11- The Correspondence
72- Appendix 1: Elusinia (Arthur Machen)
87- Appendix 2: Ten Thousand and One Nights (Arthur Machen)
100- Appendix 3: Parsifal (Arthur Machen)

120 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 1993

About the author

AKA Charles Vincent Starrett, or Charles Starrett

Vincent Starrett was a book collector, author, bibliographer, and a Sherlock Holmes scholar. He has been referred to as part of Chicago's "literary renaissance” and has written or edited more than 50 books of essays, criticism, fiction, biography, poetry, and bibliography.