A Thin Ghost, and Other Stories

by M. R James

$795 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: Edward Arnold, 1919. Macabre FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo 19 x 13cm , pp.152. Publisher's black cloth with spider's web design and lettering in grey. Contents clean, one or two small spots to edges of text block, covers lightly handled with some acceptable rubbing to joints and extremities. Very good. Perhaps the most influential writer on modern horror, his stories both suggestive and downright nasty. Item #73149

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