The Alabaster Hand and Other Ghost Stories by A.N.L. Munby - 1950

Great Britian, England, UK.: TANDEM Books., 1974. Book. Illus. by Painted Cover Art!. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition By This Publisher.. 157 pages. " The fourteen chilling tales in this collection were written while A.N.L. ('Tim') Munby was a prisoner in Germany during World War II. --Munby's spectres haunt locations as diverse as a Bristol bookshop, a Tudor Hall, the Snowdonian mountains, the peaceful Herefordshire countryside, a Book of Hours, and the remote Cuillin mountain range of the Isle of Skye. --Munby skilfully brings his own specialised antiquarian knowledge to each of the stories in this, his own tribute to the great M.R. James. The Alabaster Hand is recognised as a genuine cornerstone of supernatural literature --- stories include: Herodes Redivivus; Inscription; The Alabaster Hand; Topley Place Sale; Tudor Chimney; Christmas Game; White Sack; Four-Poster; Negro's Head; Tregannet Book Hours; Encounter in Mist; Lectern; Number Seventy-Nine; Devil's Autograph"… Read More

London: Dennis Dobson Ltd. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1949. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. 0234776307 . DJ has small chips missing at edges of spine and 2 very small chips missing on front with light rubbing and edgewear. Ghost stories in the tradition of M. R. James. ; 192 pages .

Ashcroft: Ash-Tree Press. As New in As New dust jacket. 1999. Limited Edition. Hardcover. The 2nd Ash-Tree Press edition, the first published in 1995 and limited to 250 copies. This edition printed in 1999 and limited to 350 copies. Fourteen chilling tales written by Munby while he was a prinsor of war in Germany during WWII. Book and jacket both as new. Jacket now in a brodart cover. Provenance - From the Gary Munson Collection ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London: Dennis Dobson Ltd.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1950. 2nd printing. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [minor shelfwear to bottom edge, tiny remnants of a removed old price sticker adhered to upper corner of front endpaper, previous owner's initials plus date & place of purchase and brief commentary written in ink at edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath rear jacket flap); jacket has slight wear at extremities, internal and external tape reinforcement across top of spine, sun-browning to spine panel]. Fourteen tales of the supernatural, written (per the author's Foreword) "between 1943 and 1945 in a prison-camp just outside the ancient walled town of Eichstätt in Upper Franconia." Sez the jacket blurb: "Although written by a scholar, the style is pleasantly urbane and idiomatic and should therefore have universal appeal. Horror is not piled upon horror for the sake of raising the reader's hackles. Instead, an effect of complete normality is… Read More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1950. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, American issue from British sheets. Fine in about fine dust jacket with a little wrinkle on the rear panel. Ghost stories written when the author was an inmate of a German POW camp. A lovely copy.

Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1999. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 21 x 14 cm. Octavo. 132pp. Black cloth in dust jacket. Originally published in 1949, the first Ash-Tree edition was done in 1995 in an edition of 250copies. This reprint done in 1999 limited to 350 copies. Cover illustration by Richard A. Crittenden. 14 ghost stories.

Ashcroft: Ash-Tree Press. As New in As New dust jacket. 1995. Limited Edition. Hardcover. The first Ash-Tree Press edition, this being #128 of 250 copies. Fourteen chilling tales written by Munby while he was a prinsor of war in Germany during WWII. Book and jacket both as new. Jacket now in a brodart cover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Dennis Dobson, London., 1949. First edition. Octavo. 192 pages. Fourteen ghost stories composed in prison camp in World War Two - three of them were originally published in the camp magazine, Touchstone.Fore-edge lightly spotted. Very good indeed in very good, slightly rubbed dustwrapper with several nicks.

London: Denis Dobson, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Stories written while the author was a prisoner of war in Germany, 1943-1945...Intelligent stories, with curious antiquarian information, yet with formal problems. The author has difficulty in closing his stories and the reader is often left dissatisfied."-Bleiler, Guide to Supernatural Fiction, 1206. Some of the stories have bookish themes. In one, an antiquarian bookseller is also a murderer; another centers on a medieval book of hours, a third is about a customer whose attempt to order an occult manuscript from a dealer's catalog. First edition (states "First published..." on the copyright page). But for a previous owner's name on the front free endpaper, a near fine copy in a very good dust jacket tanned at the spine and with small chips at the edges. An attractive copy overall.

London : Dennis Dobson, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 192p. ; 18cm. Subjects: Ghost stories.