Interview with a Book Collector: Mark Valentine
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Uploaded by EustonPiretRussell on Nov 25, 2011
In the video, Mark Valentine discusses the following writers: Arthur Machen, Walter de la Mare, Lord Dunsany, M.P. Shiel, William Gerhardie, R. Austin Freeman, William Hope Hodgson, Algernon Blackwood, Hubert Crackanthorpe, H.A. Manhood, Claude Houghton, E.E. Dorling, David Lindsay, Ronald Fraser, Park Barnitz, Norman Boothroyd, Francis Brett Young, Sarban, W.F. Morris, Denton Welch, Oliver Onions, Eric Lyall, Peter Vansittart, J.C. Snaith, Mary Butts, Frank Baker and Phyllis Paul. He ends with a discussion of the classic "British Rainfall, 1910".
Mark Valentine is an English author, biographer, editor and book collector.
His short stories have been published by a number of small presses and in anthologies since the 1980s, and the exploits of his series character, "The Connoisseur", an occult detective, were published as The Collected Connoisseur in 2010. As a biographer, Valentine has published a life of Arthur Machen, and a study of Sarban. He has also written numerous articles for the Book and Magazine Collector magazine, and introductions for various books, including editions of work by Walter de la Mare, Robert Louis Stevenson, Saki, J. Meade Falkner and others.
Valentine also edits Wormwood, a journal dedicated to fantastic, supernatural and decadent literature, and has also edited anthologies.
The cat that appears in the video is called Percy :-)
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Oooh... Don't think I'd heard of any of the books before...
johanneswingerlang 2 weeks ago
What a rich and tasteful exhibit, a collection just to dream of possessing -- even though a number of them have gone through my own hands over the years, too many gone, too many still coming in without sufficient time to keep up with the reading, or re-reading ... and just to hear about so intelligently described, and that wonderful British voice. Thanks for this.
billingsharold 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
wonderful, enjoyed seeing this amazing collection
Zombiejimful 2 months ago
Such good taste, Mark! Shiel, Blackwood, Hodgson - wonderful to see those books that I dream about...
ivycompton 2 months ago
A great little video. And thanks for the mention of Dagon, Mark. All the best, Carl Ford.
yetiman64 2 months ago
Christ, what a collection! How nice of him to show it off ;}
MrRemorseless 2 months ago
@scalefish most black cats look quite similar.....
danejans 2 months ago
excellent and interesting. inspiring....compelled to search for and read many of the books mentioned. thank you !
bigmoog1 3 months ago
I did buy a while ago some books from Mark Valentine. Still nice to see the guy in person via youtube!
drquartz1970 3 months ago
15p for a 1st edition fo David Lindsay's SPHINX! That beats even my "steal" of $5 for the first edition of Rex Stout's FER DE LANCE I found several eyars ago at a book sale in Peoria, Illinois and one buck for Robert Aickman's POWERS OF DARKNESS (1st edition with a VG dust jacket). This was delightful and educational. I now have a list of five new writers to investigate and several titles to track down.
4thbox 3 months ago