Wood (Charles Lindley, Lord Halifax) Further Stories from Lord Halifax’s Ghost Book
£125
London, Geoffrey Bles, [1937].
First edition. Small 4to. Original red cloth lettered in gilt. Dust-jacket, priced 8s6d.
A further collection of ‘true’ ghost stories collected by Lord Halifax, a Victorian English Viscount with an interest in the supernatural.
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Some foxing to preliminary and terminal pages, bookplate to verso of front pastedown.
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