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1904 A Book of Ghosts
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Description
Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding
The second edition, published two months after the first. Published in Methuen's Colonial Library.
A collection of twenty-one spooky ghost stories by Sabine Baring-Gould, including 'Jean Bouchon', 'Pomps and Vanities', 'The Red-Haired Girl', 'Colonel Halifax's Ghost Story', 'The 9.30 Up-Train', and more. Many of these stories have been previously published in various periodicals such as 'The Windsor Magazine', 'The Illustrated English Magazine', and 'The Graphic'.
Illustrated with a frontispiece, and six plates, by D. Murray Smith
Baring-Gould was a priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, and eclectic scholar.
Collated, bound without one plate.
Adverts to the paste downs and endpapers, and forty pages of adverts to the rear.
Condition
In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally with marks and discolouration to the boards and spine, with a pencil mark to the front board. Spine and joints are a little faded. A couple of small tide marks to the boards. Very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Spots to the fore edge. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age toned with scattered spots. Bound without the plate facing page 325.
Good
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