James M R Editor Peter Haining (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. New York, Stein and Day, 1982 (stated 1st US edition); 190 x 240 mm, 128 pp. Hard Cover, some edge and corner wear, a few marks on the cover, but contents Fine with no names, stamps, labels or annotations.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Plus. 1st Edition. STATED FIRST American Edition and Printing. A FINE or Better volume, clean, tight with NO markings. This is the first collection of M.R. James (originally issued in 1979 in UK.) ghost stories. He was a medievalist and scholar (b, 1862/ d,1936) and wrote 'antiquarian ghost stories'. A collection of macabre fiction. Filled with b/w line drawings from Peter Haining's personal library. Original price intact on front flap of Dust Jacket. A Good + Dust Jacket due to rubbed flap folds and the jacket extremities having several small chips and creases. Duplicate superficial lines' (rubbed areas) to front and rear jacket panels. (See photo). Spine crown paper lacking 1/8". Mylar protected jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very Good/Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. The Ghost's Companion: Stories of Personal Encounters with the Supernatural by Peter Haining A firm square copy. Very minor wear to corners. Price-clipped. A bright pictorial jacket. Very minor wear to edges. Title page dated 1975. Black boards with silver lettering. "Each of the fifteen stories is based on its author's personal experience of the supernatural and is introduced with details of that ghostly confrontation", jacket. Authors include: M.R. James, H.R. Wakefield, O. Henry, Algernon Blackwood, and more. Peter Haining(Editor) (illustrator). BOOK. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First American Edition. Hardcover, quarto, 128pp. First American edition - this was first published as "Book of the Supernatural" (London: W. Foulsham, 1979). In publisher's mustard-colored boards, having a black cloth spine with gold lettering. Decorative dust jacket in brown and gold depicting a gothic door with an "M.R. James" nameplate. CONDITION: Fine book in Near Fine dust jacket, which is not price-clipped, but has some surface scratches. ** An interesting collection of ghost stories and short pieces about their history. Includes a preface by Sir John Betjeman, the British Poet Laureate from 1972 to 1984, ghost stories from M.R. James and Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, and an introduction by the well-known horror story compiler, Peter Haining. ** M.R. James told his ghost stories on Christmas Eve to members of the "Chit Chat Club" at King's College, Cambridge. The first such gathering in 1893 was so well received that he was invited to repeat the performance every year on Christmas Eve. The tales are well-wrought "Victorian" ghost stories with old-fashioned notions of evil spirits, dire forebodings etc - one imagines them being told by candlelight with the narrator's back to an open fireplace, and a winter storm rattling the window panes. After a few years keeping this tradition, his friends persuaded him to publish those stories, which became his first and most famous collection, "Ghost Stories of an Antiquary" (1904).(AJ). James McBryde; Gilbert James; M. Fitzgerald; John Mackay; George Cruickshank; Charles De Mornay (illustrator). Book.…