Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

First Edition (Third Impression)

Edward Arnold, London 1906

An excellent copy of M.R. James first collection of ghost stories in the publisher's original beige cloth binding. The third impression of the 1904 first edition with four illustrations, including frontispiece, by James McBryde who died leaving illustrations for the book unfinished.

The stories are: Canon Alberic's Scrapbook, Lost Hearts, The Mezzotint, The Ash-Tree, Number 13, Count Magnus, Oh, Whistle And I'll Come To You, My Lad and The Treasure Of Abbot Thomas.

Book is very good plus.

Boards are sturdy and are stamped in red and black. There are 2 red smudges on front board and a tiny tear to cloth at bottom corner of front board (barely perceptible when book is closed). Otherwise boards are Fine. Binding is sound.

Fore and bottom edges are untrimmed.
Leaves are lightly age toned. Light age related brown spots to very early leaves and end papers. Otherwise, the leaves are remarkably clean.

Front pastedown has light age related brown spotting and a tiny bookseller's label (R.H. Blackwell, Oxford).

First blank has signature in ink of previous owner "A.G. Bewley 1909", a member of a well known Dublin Quaker family and brother of the Irish diplomat, Charles Bewley, who was Irish envoy in Berlin during Second World War.

An excellent copy.

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