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James (Montague Rhodes) Ghost Stories of an Antiquary.
£395
First edition, fourth impression.
London, Edward Arnold, 1910.
VG example of a key supernatural highlight.
Out of stock
Minor marks to front boards, slight bumping to corners, browning to front endpapers, owners bookplate on pastedown, front hinge starting to crack.
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Fourth edition. 8vo. Title printed in red & black, frontispiece and 3 plates, patterned endpapers. Original dark pictorial cloth lettered in gilt & black.
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"In 'The Beetle' Marsh introduces the supernatural entity known variously as 'The Oriental', 'The Woman of Songs' or 'The Beetle'. This malignant, deformed creature is inhabited by the soul of an ancient Egyptian princess...[and] can turn at will into an insect, or alternatively into a man or a woman or an enigmatic amalgam of both." - Richard Dalby, Book and Magazine Collector No. 163 (1997).
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