A Thin Ghost and Others.
JAMES M. R. (1919.)
£1500.00 [First Edition]
Available to view at our Curzon Street shop.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original grey cloth, upper cover adorned with spiderweb design and lettering in light grey, the same light grey lettering to spine. London, Edward Arnold.
M.R. James' third collection of ghost stories, which features five tales, including 'The Diary of Mr Poynter' (haunted curtains!) and 'The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance'.
From the library William Roughead with his bookplate pasted to the front free endpaper. Roughead was a writer on criminal trials and friend of M. R. James.
A near fine copy, very light wear to extremities, and offsetting to endpapers and half title.
Stock Code: 251320
