Morgan Library Ghost Stories. Edited by Inge Dupont and Hope Mayo. With an Introduction by Hope Mayo

(Morgan Library)

Published by The Stone House Press, Roslyn, New York, 1990

About this Item

De Pol, John. First Edition, no. 25 of 200, signed by Dupont, Mayo, De Pol, and printer M.A. Gelfand. With wood engraved initials and five full-page wood engravings by John De Pol. 1 vols. 8vo. Nice copy of this excellent collection of ghost stories, prompted by editor s 1987 lecture on M.R. James and J. Pierpont Morgan s manuscripts. This copy with two varieties of the printed prospectus for the book, a signed note from the printer, and a typed letter signed from contributor Richard B. Priest (whose Non Furtum Facies appears in the printed book), conveying a computer printout typescript of his "other ghost story … to make up for the one Belle Greene asked M. R. James to write for her and the Morgan Library". The seven-page story is entitled "The Nagrom Library Ghost Story, or The Story of Two Appearances and ztwo Disappearances by Cecil R. Henry edited with noted by Eugene Deacon". Brown cloth-backed boards. Bookplate of Stuart B. Schimmel. Fine copy, with the printed prospectus and related materials With wood engraved initials and five full-page wood engravings by John De Pol. 1 vols. 8vo First Edition, no. 25 of 200, signed by Dupont, Mayo, De Pol, and printer M.A. Gelfand. Seller Inventory # 321529

Bibliographic Details

Title: Morgan Library Ghost Stories. Edited by Inge...

Publisher: The Stone House Press, Roslyn, New York

Publication Date: 1990

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition