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Published by Pan, London, 1953
Seller: Carmarthenshire Rare Books, Carmarthen, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. first thus, paperback, 159 pages, covers a little marked, pages tanned otherwise very good. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf B/G.
Published by Pan, GB, 1955
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
First Edition
Paperback. Condition: nrVG. 1st Thus. Internally in very good condition BUTsome noticeable cover wear.
Published by Pan Books Ltd, 1955
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
First Edition
Condition: Fair. 1955. First Edition Thus. 155 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Slight cracking to binding, rear cover slightly loose. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Water staining to gutters to some pages, text remains unaffected. Paper cover has mild edgewear with curling to corners. Light tanning to spine and edges with splits to spine edges. Pen inscription to front cover. Wear marks overall.
Published by Pan Books Ltd, London, 1953
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Wilton, Carl (illustrator). First Paperback Edition. First Pan edition and first UK paperback edition. Pan No. 266. Originally published by Arnold in 1904. The book has been bound a little oddly so that the rear cover leaves about 2mm of the pages exposed at the edge. Light edge rubbing to covers with slight creasing to the top of the front cover and a tiny chip at the bottom of the spine. Brown spotting to the insides of the covers. Page edges browned and there is a production crease to page 107. Pages a little browned with light spotting to the first and last pages and a little creasing at the top right corner of the first few pages but otherwise the pages are clean and unmarked. First printing. Cover art by Carl Wilton. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.
Published by Penguin Books, 1937
Seller: HALCYON BOOKS, LONDON, United Kingdom
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Penguin Books 1937, first thus. Softcover. Tanning to page margins. Binding firm. Book appears unread. Includes a dust jacket, unclipped, in fine condition. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.
Published by The Silent Scream Publishing House, 2023
Seller: Collectors' Bookstore, Deurne, Belgium
Book First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Edition thus, fine condition. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Special Collection by M. James. Published by The Silent Scream Publishing House in 2023. Paperback. What makes this title so special is its limited availability. - Publishers Weekly. Collectible item in excellent condition.
Published by Edward Arnold, London, 1911
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Good. First Edition. Catalogue to rear dated September 1911. Has been rebacked: new spine and endpapers, orig. boards. Boards rubbed and grubby with some staining, bumped to edges. Foxing and browning throughout, text clean and bright, firm bind. Size: 8vo.
Published by Edward Arnold 41 & 43 Maddox Street, Bond Street, London, 1915
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. A superb Ninth Impression of these tales that "have come to be seen as the epitome of the English ghost story." (Literary Encyclopedia) Demy 8vo (211 x 145mm): xii,270pp, with four illustrations by James McBryde. Original beige linen stamped in black and red, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. Fine and tightly bound, light sporadic spotting (occasionally moderately so) to pages (not plates). Provenance: The Stuart B. Schimmel collection of M. R. James. Bleiler (Checklist), p. 108. Sullivan, pp. 233-35 ("some of the most alarming and unforgettable ghost stories in the English language"). Jones & Newman, pp. 61-64 ("the most important and influential figure in the horror field"). Rogers 84 (for first and new editions). The first work of fiction by one of the greatest ghost-story writers of all time, originally published in 1904, collecting eight creepy tales, two of which appeared previously, in the National Review ("Canon Alberic's Scrapbook") and the Pall Mall Gazette ("Lost Hearts"). Most were composed to be read aloud for the entertainment of James's colleagues and students at Christmas gatherings, held annually in his rooms at King's College, Cambridge, where James was a fellow and, later, Dean. The third tale, "The Mezzotint", frequently anthologized, concerns a haunted painting that changes gradually to dramatize the snatching away of a baby by a vindictive corpse. This volume was followed, in 1911, by More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, containing a further seven stories on similar themes. Had he not written in the genre, Rhodes would have been remembered an expert on apocryphal literature and medieval manuscripts, as director of Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum, and Provost of Eton. 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 malignancy of his ghosts." (Kunitz & Haycraft). N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
Original Cloth. Condition: Good ++. No Jacket. First Edition. 1st Edition 1911. The scarce first edition of English author and medievalist scholar M. R. James's second collection of ghost stories. Catalogue to rear dated September 1911. Book is just about good++ and quite bright. Edges rubbed. Boards marked or rubbed in places. Wording quite dull. Spine tips and edge hinges lightly repaired in places. Contents quite good. Endpapers age toned and with small name. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 18409.
Published by Edward Arnold, 41 & 43 Maddox Street, Bond Street W., London, 1912
Seller: Thompson Rare Books - ABAC / ILAB, Hornby Island, BC, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition, Sixth Impression. Octavo, original tan rough buckram cloth titled in black and ruled in red on spine and front panel. 270 pp. + 16 pp publisher's catalogue at rear, dated Spring, 1912. Frontispiece with tissue guard plus three additional full-page black & white plates by McBryde throughout the text. Moderate foxing to endpapers; a fine copy in excellent condition. The author's first book, originally issued in this format in 1904, comprising eight tales of the supernatural. A seminal volume of English ghost stories, likely the most important book by the foremost English writer of supernatural fiction.
Cloth. Condition: Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The scarce first edition of English author and medievalist scholar M. R. James's second collection of ghost stories. The scarce first edition of this work.Known as the originator of the 'antiquarian ghost story genre' with the 1904 publication of his 'Ghost Stories of an Antiquary', James's works are significant in redefining the ghost story for a new century, abandoning established cliches in favour of a more realistic style.Containing seven short horror tales by James: 'A School Story'; 'The Rose Garden'; 'The Tractate Middoth'; 'Casting the Runes'; 'The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral'; 'Martin's Close', and 'Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance.'With a twenty-four page publisher's catalogue to the rear.With a contemporary ink inscription to the front free endpaper, dated December 25th 1911, and a Blackwell's bookseller's label to the front pastedown.A first edition collection of seven classic Jamesian tales. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with small split to the cloth at the centre of rear joint. Discolouration to back strip, with a mark to the tail of the front board. Rear hinge starting, with board holding firm. Inscription to front free endpaper. Bookseller's label to front pastedown. Internally, binding lightly strained. Spotting throughout, most concentrated to the start of the work. Final leaf of advertisements unopened. Good. book.
Published by Edward Arnold, 1911
Seller: Babushka Books & Framers, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
First Edition
Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, in original publishers grey cloth with black titles and bat. Binding is with some genral age related ear. Binding tight and pages are clean.
Published by Edward Arnold, London, 1905
Seller: ecbooks, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Good. James McBryde (illustrator). 1st Edition. A good to very good copy of the 2nd impression of this classic collection of ghost stories. In the original beige canvas binding with yapp edges and with 4 black and white plates by James McBryde. This was M R James first collection of stories which he had begun many years previously, reading them to friends. James McBryde was one of those friends and offered to illustrate the volume, but sadly died after only 4 illustrations were completed. The binding has been rebacked relaying the original spine and the endpapers have been retained with professional repair at the joints. The binding is sound and clean with some darkening to the spine. There is a signature dated 1905 to the front endpaper. Contents are clean with the occasional light mark and general toning to the text paper. There are some tiny red speckles in a small area in the top margin of p39, a few light brown spots in the top margin of pp 117-8, and the final page has a couple of marked areas. There are a few professional paper repairs to edges.
Cloth. Condition: Very Good +. McBryde, James (illustrator). 1st Edition. Plates all present, no adverts at rear but no priority established. Spine darkened with light bumping to ends and wear to cloth at top of rear hinge. Both boards darkened around edges and generally rubbed with a dark spot near top of rear board. Yapp edges in similar condition with minor small staining on the front one. Internally offsetting to end papers, front hinge lightly cracked at top and bottom (see images) and rear hinge cracked at top 1". Previous owner's name in pencil on end paper. Tissue guard to frontis is tanned offsetting to title page. Previous owner's name in pencil on end paper. Apologies for the sideways images that I seem to be uploading, it's a technical problem with the way my new phone works and I haven't figured it out yet. :( Postage will be confirmed when you enquire or order and for light or very heavy books will vary from the ABE quote which is based on a 1kg parcel. N.B. Postage to the USA will often be quite a bit less than the quote on ABE.
Published by Edward Arnold, 1904
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. GHOST STORIES OF AN ANTIQUARY, Edward Arnold, 1904, first edition, a tight vg+ copy in the publishers original buckram binding. Illustrated by James McBryde. A cornerstone must for the serious supernatural collector. A classic work.
Published by Edward Arnold, London, 1904
Seller: Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books , Toronto, ON, Canada
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good first edition. Original buckram. Slight cocking. Very slight looseness to front hinge. Some minor foxing throughout. Some very light wear to spine ends, edges, corners. A lovely scarce copy of arguably the greatest collection of ghost stories ever published.
Published by London: Edward Arnold, 1904, 1904
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition, first impression, with the publisher's adverts dated November 1904, in notably bright condition. Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) began writing ghost stories upon entering Cambridge in 1882 and quickly become known for his candlelit readings. Several of James's ghost stories were printed in magazines in the 1890s and, in 1904, he was persuaded by the publisher Edward Arnold to bring out the present collection of eight tales. The illustrator, James McBryde, died in June 1904 from complications following an appendix operation, leaving the illustrations unfinished. Although Arnold suggested another illustrator, James, a close friend of McBryde's, was adamant that he could not be replaced. Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary was accordingly published with just the four completed works as a tribute to McBryde. The fourth plate in the book (facing p. 222) was the last McBryde prepared before his death. He wrote excitedly to James on 6 May 1904: "I have finished the Whistle ghost. I covered yards of paper to put in the moon shadows correctly and it is certainly the best thing I have ever drawn". "There is no question of apprenticeship here; the first story, 'Canon Alberic's Scrap Book', contains the donnish tone, the massing of verisimilitudinous detail (often of a tongue-in-cheek scholarly sort), and the using of that detail to intensify the terror when it comes, that are James's trademarks" (ODNB). The popularity of this collection led to widespread requests for more: consequently More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary followed in 1911, A Thin Ghost and other Stories in 1919, and A Warning to the Curious in 1925. The influence and import of James's 31 published ghost stories has been a topic of scholarly discussion since publication. Many of James's tales were read contemporaneously as Christmas Eve entertainments, an idea that was taken up by the BBC in 2000 when they filmed Christopher Lee reading James's stories in King's College, Cambridge, as the author himself had done years before. Bleiler 911. Octavo. Original brown buckram, yapp edges, spine and front board lettered in black, boards double ruled in red, top edge brown, others untrimmed. Frontispiece with tissue guard and 3 plates. With 16 pp. of publisher's advertisements at rear. Ownership inscription of Frank Leslie Nightingale (1881-1915) and newspaper clipping from The Daily Telegraph, dated 12 March 1956 in manuscript, on front free endpaper; undated newspaper obituary for James loosely inserted, once attached to front pastedown with consequent skinning and glue residue. Spine and board edges browned, ink splashes to foot of rear board, inner hinges starting, book block remaining firm, scattered foxing to contents, tide mark to fore edge of front free endpaper, a very good copy.
Published by Edward Arnold, London, 1904
Seller: Hyraxia Books. ABA, ILAB, Hutton Cranswick, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardback. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. London, Edward Arnold, 1904. First edition, first impression. Hardback. A very good copy. A prominent highlight in the horror genre and a highlight of speculative fiction collecting. An important book. Nov 1904 Ads to the rear, as called for. Small newspaper clipping pasted to the front endpaper, owner's signature to the same. Some tanning and soiling, but the block's largely in great shape. Spine a touch toned. A few stains to the rear. Illustrations by James McBryde [11003, Hyraxia Books].
Published by London Edward Arnold 1904, 1904
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
First edition, first printing. Published by Edward Arnold in London, 1904. This is a near fine copy. Issued without a dust wrapper and in the original publishers cloth binding with yapp edges. Bordered in a deep red, embossed stain, the black titling is bold and clean. There is slight toning to the front panel which slightly continues to the tail of the spine. The internals are mostly clean and free from foxing, though so slightly toned. The frontispiece and three plates are finely illustrated by James Bride who, whilst illustrating this book, died. The publisher consequently suggested another illustrator, but the author rejected the proposal. The boards are markedly sturdy, which is uncommon for this production. This copy is free from previous owners ink. Overall, this is a near fine copy of a spooky work, with an equally spooky back-story. The authors first short story collection, which precedes the later published 'More Ghost Stories'.
Published by Edward Arnold, London, 1904
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-ix [x] xi [xii] 1 [2] 3-270 [271-272: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original tan buckram, front and spine panels stamped in orange and black, rear panel stamped in orange, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. The first printing is found with and without an inserted 16 page publisher's catalog of books, this copy does not have it and no priority has been determined concerning it. "The first and best of James's classic collections of stories . He was a consummate artist of the creepy tale, and his best works are literary gems." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-108. ". author of some of the most frightening and formally perfect ghost stories ever written." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 233-35. "His first collection, GHOST-STORIES OF AN ANTIQUARY, is generally taken to mark the beginning of the modern era of supernatural fiction . In the opinion of many the foremost modern writer of supernatural fiction." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, p. 279. ". a literary weird fictionist of the very first rank ." - H. P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature, pp. 100-05. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 103-04. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 911. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I, pp. 289-93. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-125. Bleiler (1978), p. 108. Reginald 07817. Neat inked name to upper front free end paper, offsetting to end papers, some mild foxing to prelims, mild darkening to spine, a nearly fine copy. (27969).