M R James Intro (11 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprinted Edition". VERY GOOD Condition PAPERBACK, text gently toning, else clean, solid, bright; white TITLES TO GLOSSY BLACK PAPER COVERS. SHOWING WHITE ghostly movement.1/2" red oval with penguin top right corner cover. White titles on orange spine strip. ; 304pg pages; meandering through a graveyard in a melancholy mood, brooding on his current illness, until he falls asleep against the tomb of suicide victim.…

paperback. Condition: Very Good. UNABRIDGED REPUBLICATION EDITION. VERY GOOD Condition PAPERBACK, clean, solid, bright; white TITLES TO GLOSSY pink & blue colored PAPER COVERS. SHOWING cloth ghost & terrified man.; 176 pages; meandering through a graveyard in a melancholy mood, brooding on his current illness, until he falls asleep against the tomb of suicide victim. Illustrated by mcbride, james 4 illust in text (illustrator).…

Paperback. pp. xxxvi, 468. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good.

Condition: binding (fair) pages (good). n.d. (c. 1946) 125 pages.

paperback. Condition: Good. North Carolina Humanities Committee & Mountain Heritage Center, Western Carolina University, 1979, trade paperbk., 131pp., illusts., signed by all 4 authors & editor, a bit musty, ow G $.

Very Good Hardback, firm binding, corners and edges in excellent condition, bookplate of previous owner, ink initials on front free endpaper, otherwise clean and unmarked. An excellent copy of this landmark volume, with its authoritative introduction by M R James. 506 pp Hardback in green cloth with gilt titles on spine. Red page marker. The image on this listing page is of the actual book for sale.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Fine. Complete with slipcase. Francis Mosley (illustrator).

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Library sticker on front cover.Super 8vo. Teal cloth binding with gilt lettering, white library sticker, and gilt publisher stamp on backstrip. Red library sticker on front board. Binding in good condition. Untrimmed page edges. Internally clean with only some very light foxing. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1650grams, ISBN.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 28.5 cm. x 22.5 cm. 38 pp. Quarter faux vellum with grey textured paper to boards with black titles: clean with minimal wear. Uniform toning to front and rear end papers. Otherwise entirely clean throughout with A1 binding. Multiple comedic sketches and hand-written narrative in facsimile to one side of pages throughout. A Near Fine copy. James McBryde (illustrator).…

Leather. Condition: Near Fine. A large limited edition facsimile of the Canterbury Psalter, presented in an attractive rebind and clamshell by Eric Sweet. A limited edition of 425 numbered copies for sale, of which this copy is number 418.Handsomely rebound in half morocco, with decorative paper covered boards and marbled endpapers. Held in a matching cloth-backed clamshell with spine label.With a coloured frontispiece, three coloured plates, and two hundred and eighty-six facsimile pages. Collated, complete.A terrific facsimile of The Canterbury Psalter, an illuminated manuscript made partly in Canterbury in 1200 and in Catalonia around 1340. With an introduction by M. R. James, an English medievalist, scholar and author, who here gives the history and origin of the Psalter as well as descriptive notes.Printed and published for the "Friends of Canterbury Cathedral".Bound by Eric Sweet, a keen collector of private press and fables. He studied at the Brighton College of Art, before moving to London to work as a letteringartist and typographer for advertising agencies, later becoming the head ofBirmingham School of Printing. Sweet's bindings are unique and striking, reflecting the topics of the volumes in distinctivestyle. Bound by Eric Sweet in half morocco, with marbled endpapers and with a matching cloth-backed clamshell. Externally, lovely. Clamshell is excellent, with only minor shelf wear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright, with spots lightly scattered majority throughout, with heaviest instances to the first and last few pages. Near Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Condition: Fine. First Edition. London: Haymarket Press, 1929. First Thus, Limited to 100 copies of which this is no. 66. Quarto; publisher's full limp parchment, front cover and spine lettered in gilt, yapp edges, white cloth ties, top edge gilt, housed in custom cloth slipcase; xvi,47pp.; tipped in color frontispiece, three leaves of tipped in plates, text printed within green line border. A Fine example of this luxe special edition accompanied by an extra suite of the four plates in original envelope. Though remembered today by American readers for his classic ghost stories, M.R. James also gained renown for his scholarship of biblical apocrypha, culminating in the compilation The Apocryphal New Testament (1924), published while serving for nearly two decades as Provost of Eton College.…