GHOST-STORIES OF AN ANTIQUARY ..

by James, M[ontague] R[hodes]

$6,000 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

London: Edward Arnold, 1904. First edition. Neat inked name to upper front free end paper, offsetting to end papers, some mild foxing to prelims, mild darkening to spine, a nearly fine copy. (27969). Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-ix [x] xi [xii] 1 [2] 3-270 [271-272: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original tan buckram, front and spine panels stamped in orange and black, rear panel stamped in orange, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. The first printing is found with and without an inserted 16 page publisher's catalog of books, this copy does not have it and no priority has been determined concerning it. "The first and best of James's classic collections of stories ... He was a consummate artist of the creepy tale, and his best works are literary gems." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-108. "... author of some of the most frightening and formally perfect ghost stories ever written." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 233-35. "His first collection, GHOST-STORIES OF AN ANTIQUARY, is generally taken to mark the beginning of the modern era of supernatural fiction ... In the opinion of many the foremost modern writer of supernatural fiction." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, p. 279. "... a literary weird fictionist of the very first rank ..." - H. P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature, pp. 100-05. [Reference: Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 103-04. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 911. S

• Publisher: Edward Arnold
• Year: 1904
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: first
• Binding: unknown

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