The Stuart B. Schimmel collection of M.R. James, scholar, palaeographer, and celebrated author of Ghost Stories of An Antiquary. With additional books of related interest, including a short list of works by J.S. Le Fanu (whose supernatural writings were championed by James).
This catalogue describes multiple editions and printings of James’ ghost stories, followed by a selection of other works by him, as well as works by J. S. Le Fanu and other writers, including classic works and modern editions from some of the specialty presses.
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Pennyffordd: Ash-tree Press, 1995. One of 250 copies. Nicely produced new edition of this classic of the supernatural, with an introduction by Michael Cox. Munbay, Librarian at King’s College, wrote these while he was intererned in a German prison camp near Eichstätt. Read More Item Details for The Alabaster Hand and Other Ghost Stories. [Introduction by Michael Cox] Add to Wish List
Item #321571
Price: $75
Boston: Hale, Cushman & Flint, [1933]. First American edition. Presentation Copy. Inscribed by the principal author on the flyleaf “Mrs. Clifford with kindest regards C. H. Collins Baker”. M.R. James contributed the first chapter, on wall paintings in Britain. Read More Item Details for British Painting. With a Chapter on Primitive Painting by Montague R. James Add to Wish List
Item #321527
Price: $75
London: G. Bell, 1925. First edition. The first chapter, pp. 1-23 by M.R. James, "Trivial Reminiscences , Early and Late" Read More Item Details for Arthur Christopher Benson as seen by some friends Add to Wish List
Item #322088
Price: $200
New York: Dover, 1971. Reprint. Finely bound copy of the Dover edition, which kept the work of James available for American readers before the ghost story revival. Read More Item Details for Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Add to Wish List
Item #320898
Price: $125
London: Ghost Story Press, [1993]. Second edition. No. 128 of 300 copies. The first title from the Ghost Story Press imprint, an expanded reprint of the original 1919 edition with one additional story, "Suggestion", and an introduction by Rosemary Pardoe and Mark Valentine. Excellent, atmospheric ghost stories. Read More Item Details for Tedious Brief Tales of Granta and Gramarye by "Ingulphus" Add to Wish List
Item #321604
Price: $150
London: The Haymarket Press, 1929. No. 206 of 875 copies. Read More Item Details for The Book of Tobit & History of Susanna. Reprinted From the Revised Version of the Apocrypha. With an Introduction by Dr Montague R James Add to Wish List
Item #263592
Price: $500
Cambridge: at the University Press, 1919. First edition. Latin text and translation by James of Collectarium mansuetudinum et bonorum morum regis Henrici VI. “Another work of pietas performed by MRJ was printing and translating the life of Henry VI by his confessor, the Carthusian monk John Blacman. … MRJ’s translation..... Read More Item Details for Henry the Sixth. A Reprint of John Blacman's Memoir with Translation and Notes … Add to Wish List
Item #321557
Price: $200
Cambridge: Printed by J. R. Pearce, M.A., at the University Press, [1918]. First edition. An uncommon James piece and a nice example of Bruce Rogers' design work at Cambridge. Read More Item Details for Address at the Unveiling of the Roll of Honour of the Cambridge Tipperary Club on July 12, 1916 by … the Provost of King's College, Cambridge Add to Wish List
Item #321473
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Cambridge: Printed by J. R. Pearce, M.A., at the University Press, [1918]. First edition. Superior copy of an uncommon James piece and a nice example of Bruce Rogers' design work at Cambridge. Read More Item Details for Address at the Unveiling of the Roll of Honour of the Cambridge Tipperary Club on July 12, 1916 by … the Provost of King's College, Cambridge Add to Wish List
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London: Edward Arnold & Co, [1931]. First collected edition. Read More Item Details for The Collected Ghost Stories of … Add to Wish List
Item #263565
Price: $400
Manchester: at the University Press, 1921. First edition. Read More Item Details for A Descriptive Catalogue of the Latin Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library at Manchester Volume I. Numbers 1 to 183. Letterpress. [with:] Volume II. Plates Add to Wish List
Item #263594
Price: $100
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1923. First edition. Read More Item Details for A Descriptive Catalogue of the Library of Samuel Pepys. Part III. — Mediaeval Manuscripts. [At head of title:] Bibliotheca Pepysiana Add to Wish List
Item #321545
Price: $600
London: Edward Arnold & Co, 1922. James, Gilbert. First edition. This is James's only novel-length work of fiction and his only children's book. Read More Item Details for The Five Jars Add to Wish List
Item #263564
Price: $1,750
Eton College: Spottiswoode & Co., Limited, 1907. First edition, number 222 of 250 copies. Inscribed. Read More Item Details for The Frescoes in the Chapel at Eton College. Facsimiles of the Drawings by R.H. Essex with explanatory Notes by … Add to Wish List
Item #263590
Price: $375
London: Edward Arnold 41 & 43 Maddox Street, Bond Street, 1914. Eighth Impression. The first work of fiction by the distinguished scholar, educator, administrator and antiquarian who was one of the greatest ghost-story writers of all time. Had he not written in the genre, Rhodes, born in 1862, would have..... Read More Item Details for Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Add to Wish List
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London: Edward Arnold 41 & 43 Maddox Street, Bond Street, 1912. Sixth Impression. The first work of fiction by the distinguished scholar, educator, administrator and antiquarian who was one of the greatest ghost-story writers of all time. Had he not written in the genre, Rhodes, born in 1862, would have..... Read More Item Details for Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Add to Wish List
Item #263449
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London: Edward Arnold 41 & 43 Maddox Street, Bond Street, 1912. Sixth Impression. The first work of fiction by the distinguished scholar, educator, administrator and antiquarian who was one of the greatest ghost-story writers of all time. Had he not written in the genre, Rhodes, born in 1862, would have..... Read More Item Details for Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Add to Wish List
Item #263451
Price: $750
London: Edward Arnold 41 & 43 Maddox Street, Bond Street, 1919. New edition. Read More Item Details for Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Add to Wish List
Item #301326
Price: $400
Norwich: Published under the Direction of the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society, 1911. First edition. Read More Item Details for The Sculptured Bosses in the Cloisters of Norwich Cathedral with Illustrations of the Bosses in the Northern Alley from Drawings by the Late C J W Winter Add to Wish List
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London: Dent, [1950]. Read More Item Details for Suffolk and Norfolk. A Perambulation of the Two Counties with Notices of Their History and Ancient Buildings Add to Wish List
Item #321569
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London: Dent, [1930]. First edition. Read More Item Details for Suffolk and Norfolk. A Perambulation of the Two Counties with Notices of Their History and Ancient Buildings Add to Wish List
Item #321570
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New York: Longmans, Green & Co. London: Edward Arnold, 1920. First edition, Third Impression. The first American edition of M. R. James' third ghost story collection. Read More Item Details for A Thin Ghost and Others Add to Wish List
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Price: $2,500
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1868. First edition, secondary binding without name or imprint on spine (100 copies bound thus). Bentley’s General Authors’ Ledger records that 400 copies of A Lost Name were bound in March, and a further 100 copies in June 1868, 25 copies being bound in..... Read More Item Details for A Lost Name Add to Wish List
Item #319187
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London: Downey and Co, n.d. [1898]. Scarce early reprint of Le Fanu’s pioneering detective novel, the first to use plastic surgery and dental records in criminal identification. Read More Item Details for Checkmate Add to Wish List
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Cambridge: University Press, 1929. First edition. Inscribed from Reynolds Stone to His Father. Edited by M.R. James and A. B. Ramsay. The Spectator, 20 Nov. 1926 "In Mr. Luxmoore, Eton has lost the figure which had become there for the time the best loved and revered. To a great age..... Read More Item Details for Letters. [With an Introduction by M.R. James] Add to Wish List
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