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JAMES, M.R.

More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary.

More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary.

Stock Code 116523

London, Edward Arnold, 1911

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The sequel to the author's Ghost Stories (1904), a ghoulish collection of tales primarily designed to be read aloud in the traditional fashion. Montague Rhodes James was a respected specialist in apocryphal writings and medieval manuscript, with an impressive career amongst the dusty halls of academia, not least as director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, administrator for King's College and Provost of Eton. However, he is primarily remembered for ghost stories such as these, with their wonderfully eerie atmosphere and malignant spirits.

First edition; 8vo; bookplate to front pastedown, occasional light foxing, very light browning to endpapers, contemporary ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper; original grey pictorial cloth, titles to spine and upper cover in black, illustration of a bat to upper cover in black, slight toning to spine, light rubbing to joints, spine tips and corners, minor fraying to head of spine, some minor marking to covers; an unusually sharp copy.

Currey p.261; Tymn 3-126.

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Provenance: Barry Humphries (bookplate to front pastedown).

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