James (Montague Rhodes) A Warning to the Curious
£2,250
and other Ghost Stories
London, Edward Arnold, 1926.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 5s.
A collection of ghost stories. Among the stories are “A Warning to the Curious”, “The Haunted Doll’s House”, “An Evening’s Entertainment”, etc. In the titular story, Paxton, an antiquarian, unearths one of the legendary lost crowns of East Anglia, which leads to a supernatural guardian following him, with fatal consequences.
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Cloth slightly softened at head of spine; jacket with rubbing to edges, some loss to head of spine and fore-corners.
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