4th Dec, 2019 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Ephemera

 
Lot 81
 

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Burrage, A.M. Some Ghost Stories. Cecil Palmer, 1927. 8vo, org. black cloth, upper board ruled...

Burrage, A.M.
Some Ghost Stories. Cecil Palmer, 1927. 8vo, org. black cloth, upper board ruled and titled in white with lower white vignette, spine lettered in white. First ed.
Burrage was best known in his day as a writer of fiction for boys and comic fiction. However, it is his horror writing for which he is chiefly remembered today. M.R. James praised this book (Burrage's first horror collection), saying "if about half his ghosts are amiable, the rest have their terrors, and no mean ones."
With Du Maurier, Daphne, Rebecca. Victor Gollancz, 1938. 8vo, org. black cloth. Third Imp. before publication.

Sold for £60
Estimated at £60 - £80


 

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