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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Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1997. First edition, one of 500 copies. Reprints the thirteen stories from the 1947 first edition, with a new introduction by Barbara Roden, and a bibliographical afterword by Jack Adrian. Read More about Unholy Relics and other Uncanny Tales
Price: $75
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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 about The Alabaster Hand and Other Ghost Stories. [Introduction by Michael Cox
Price: $225
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 about British Painting. With a Chapter on Primitive Painting by Montague R. James
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 about Arthur Christopher Benson as seen by some friends
Price: $75
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 about Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Price: $200
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 about Tedious Brief Tales of Granta and Graymarye by "Ingulphus"
Price: $125
London: The Haymarket Press, 1929. No. 206 of 875 copies. Read More about The Book of Tobit & History of Susanna. Reprinted From the Revised Version of the Apocrypha....
Price: $150
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 about Henry the Sixth. A Reprint of John Blacman's Memoir with Translation and Notes …
Price: $500
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 about Address at the Unveiling of the Roll of Honour of the Cambridge Tipperary Club on July 12, 1916...
Price: $200
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 about Address at the Unveiling of the Roll of Honour of the Cambridge Tipperary Club on July 12, 1916...
Price: $250
London: Edward Arnold & Co, [1931]. First edition. Read More about The Collected Ghost Stories of …
Price: $300
Manchester: at the University Press, 1921. First edition. Read More about A Descriptive Catalogue of the Latin Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library at Manchester Volume...
Price: $400
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1923. First edition. Read More about A Descriptive Catalogue of the Library of Samuel Pepys. Part III. — Mediaeval Manuscripts. [At...
Price: $100
London: William & Norgate, Ltd, 1926. First edition. Read More about Eton & King's Recollections, Mostly Trivial 1875-1925
Price: $225
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 about The Five Jars
Price: $600
Eton College: Spottiswoode & Co., Limited, 1907. First edition, number 222 of 250 copies. Inscribed. Read More about The Frescoes in the Chapel at Eton College. Facsimiles of the Drawings by R.H. Essex with...
Price: $1,750
New York: Longmans, Green. London: Edward Arnold, 1905. First American edition. The first American edition of this landmark work. Read More about Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Price: $1,500
London: Edward Arnold 41 & 43 Maddox Street, Bond Street, 1905. Second 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 about Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Price: $1,250
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 about Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Price: $375
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 about Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Price: $500
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 about Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Price: $500
London: Edward Arnold 41 & 43 Maddox Street, Bond Street, 1919. New edition. Read More about Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Price: $750
Norwich: Published under the Direction of the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society, 1911. First edition. Read More about The Sculptured Bosses in the Cloisters of Norwich Cathedral with Illustrations of the Bosses in...
Price: $400
