Turner (James) My Life with Borley Rectory
£95
London, Bodley Head, 1950.
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth, dust-jacket, price-clipped.
The first edition of poet & novelist James Turner’s oft-amusing account of his time at ‘the most haunted house in England’, Borley Rectory, which be bought in the 1940s.
Out of stock
Cloth slightly sunned at head of spine; jacket price-clipped with small section of loss from head of spine, edge wear.
Jacket artwork by Bradley.
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