Books

"Ghost Stories of an Antiquary" by M.R. James. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1922. First edition, sixth impression. Octavo. 190 x 125 mm. [2], 270 pages. Teal publisher's cloth lettered in red and black with dust jacket blocked in red and white. Housed in custom clamshell box. Dust jacket with heavy soiling, lacking quarter-inch along bottom edge, staining to spine, tape repairs to flap and spine edges on verso, scattered paper repairs, front flap creased, chipping along edges. Spine lightly sunned, covers with slight soiling, head and foot of spine pushed. Light foxing to text block edges, first few, and last few leaves; bookseller label pasted to bottom of front free endpaper with previous bookseller notations in pencil, printing statement pasted to bottom of dedication. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Very good book in good dust jacket.

Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary is a collection of short ghost stories by M. R. James. It was first published in 1904 by Edward Arnold, inspired by the author's lifelong fascination with antiquities.