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Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
by James, Montague Rhodes
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- Original beige linen, stamped in black and red, yapp fore-edges.Toned, ffep loosening. Ownership signature of Amy K. Spalding Ch
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London: Edward Arnold 41 & 43 Maddox Street, Bond Street, 1912. Sixth Impression. With four illustrations by late James McBryde. 270pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original beige linen, stamped in black and red, yapp fore-edges.Toned, ffep loosening. Ownership signature of Amy K. Spalding Christmas 1912. Sixth Impression. With four illustrations by late James McBryde. 270pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The first work of fiction by the distinguished scholar, educator, administrator and antiquarian who was one of the greatest ghost-story writers of all time. Had he not written in the genre, Rhodes, born in 1862, would have been remembered as a writer and expert on apocryphal literature and medieval manuscripts, as director of Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum, a noteworthy administrator of King's College, and Provost of Eton until his death in 1936. Instead, we know him as a masterful narrator who 'surpassed most writers of ghost stories in the eeriness of his atmosphere, the individual and peculiarly creepy quality of his plots, and the vindictiveness and maligancy of his ghosts..." (Kunitz & Haycraft, Twentieth Century Authors). Among the eight extremely creepy stories in this volume is the frequently anthologized tale, "The Mezzotint" Bleiler, Supernatural Fiction, p. 279
Synopsis
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary is the title of M. R. James' first collection of ghost stories, published in 1904 (some had previously appeared in magazines). Some later editions under this title contain both the original collection and its successor, More Ghost Stories (1911), combined in one volume. Montague Rhodes James (1862–1936) was a medieval scholar; Provost of King's College, Cambridge.
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- Title
- Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
- Author
- James, Montague Rhodes
- Format/Binding
- With four illustrations by late James McBryde. 270pp. 1 vols. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Original beige linen, stamped in black and red, yapp fore-edges.Toned, ffep loosening. Ownership signature of Amy K. Spalding Ch
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Sixth Impression
- Publisher
- Edward Arnold 41 & 43 Maddox Street, Bond Street
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1912
- Keywords
- British
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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