A little light foxing; some minor bumping and light soiling to covers, but overall VG.
James (M.R.) More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
£795
London, Edward Arnold, 1911.
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth with bat illustration.
The continuation to Montague Rhodes James’ Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), featuring many ghostly gems, including ‘The Tractate Middoth’, televised in 2013 by Mark Gatiss for the BBC.
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