Tedious brief tales of Granta and Gramarye by Ingulphus [pseudonym of Arthur Gray] - 1993

Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2008. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 23.5 x 16 cm. Octavo. ix110pp. Red cloth in dust jacket. First Ash-tree edition, limited to 400 copies, reprinting the 1919 edition with som new material. Introduction by Rosemary Pardoe. Illustrated by E. Joyce Shillington Scales.

W. Heffer & Sons, Cambridge, 1919 viii + 94pp. Black and white illustrations by E. Joyce Shillington Scales. Illustrated paper covered boards. Covers scuffed, stained and rubbed, corners bumped with some loss to paper. Lacks original spine, now reinforced with brown paper. Page edges and outer pages foxed. Ownership (not author) inscription on front free end paper. Contents little shaken. 23x17cms.

Ashcroft: Ash-Tree Press. Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket. 2008. Limited Edition. Hardcover. An uncommon Ash-Tree title, introduction by Rosemary Pardoe. This edition includes additional material, including two papers presented by Arthur Gray to the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. Limited to 400 copies. A very fine book in a very fine dust jacket. Jacket now with clear archival protection. We stock a wide range of Ash-Tree titles, most are in AS New condition. We are happy to offer discounts and shipping consolidation for multi-book orders, feel free to get in touch if you have questions. .

Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd., [1919]. First edition. Some mild foxing to first few leaves, spine a bit leaned, light wear to corners and spine ends, some mild spotting and rubbing, a very good copy without the dust jacket. (18342). Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-93 [94: printer's imprint] [95-100: blank] [note: last three leaves are blanks with terminal leaf used as rear paste-down], fifteen illustrations by E. Joyce Shillington Scales, pictorial boards. Collects nine stories and a poem. "Antiquarian ghost stories, by no means tedious, deftly balancing a light tone with darker terrors. One of the more notable successors to M. R. James." - Robert Knowlton. "A beautifully illustrated and highly sought after collection of Gray's supernatural tales which is a classic of the antiquarian ghost genre ... Although the stories are firmly in the antiquarian tradition of Gray's Cambridge contemporary M. R. James, they are strong enough to stand on their own merits,… Read More

Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd, 1919. First edition. 8vo, [viii], 93, [1]pp. Illustrated gray paper boards, matching dust jacket. Illustrations by E. Joyce Shillington. Very good with some wear and bumping to edges. Foxing to preliminaries and scattered throughout. Ownership signature of A. E. Glover on ffep. Jacket scuffed at heel of spine, likely from sticker removal. Wear and small tears to edges, chip to upper edge of rear panel, and light staining. Very good. Collection of supernatural tales in the M.R. James tradition, strikingly illustrated throughout. Neil Barron in his guide, Fantasy and Horror, describes the stories as ranging in subject from spectral cats to metempsychosis, and "quirkier" than those of James's. Arthur Gray (1852-1940) is primarily known for this collection of ghost stories, however he also wrote on Shakespeare and local Cambridge history, having been a Master of Jesus College there for over 25 years, The book which was republished in 1993 by Ghost Story Press and again in… Read More

Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd., [1919]. First edition. Foxing throughout, slight wear to spine ends, a nearly fine copy in a very good or slight better example of the fragile dust jacket with mild wear to edges, a small chip to the upper front corner tip, mild loss at the head of the spine panel (note: it appears the jacket is cut slightly larger than the book), some damp stains to spine panel. (28709). Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-93 [94: printer's imprint] [95-100: blank] [note: last three leaves are blanks with terminal leaf used as rear paste-down], fifteen illustrations by E. Joyce Shillington Scales, pictorial boards. Collects nine stories and a poem. "Antiquarian ghost stories, by no means tedious, deftly balancing a light tone with darker terrors. One of the more notable successors to M. R. James." - Robert Knowlton. "A beautifully illustrated and highly sought after collection of Gray's supernatural tales which is a classic of the antiquarian… Read More

TEDIOUS BRIEF TALES OF GRANTA AND GRAMARYE, W. Heffer & Sons, 1919, first edition, slight foxing to the f.e.p., else a fine copy in a vg+ dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear and soil. Very scarce in this condition (as the wonderful pictorial binding is in fragile gray boards) and downright rare in dust-wrapper. Antiquarian ghost stories by this most able conemporary of M.R. James. Illustrtated.