Ed Jane Mainley Piddock (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: New. Now celebrated as the finest English writer of ghost stories, MR James was known to his contemporaries as the scholarly Provost of King's College Cambridge and later of Eton. This first published collection of his letters - deciphered from his notoriously difficult handwriting - includes affectionate boyhood missives to his parents, discussions of academic politics with colleagues, and chatty notes to friends revealing his fear of spiders and love of cats.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine new copy of the first ever general collection of M.R. James' correspondence. James was of course both antiquary and Provost of King's College and Eton. He is perhaps best known as the author of fine ghost stories. 256pp.