Search Results: the alabaster hand and other ghost by anl munby

Great Britian, England, UK.: TANDEM Books., 1974. Book. Illus. by Painted Cover Art!. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition By This Publisher.. 157 pages. " The fourteen chilling tales in this collection were written while A.N.L. ('Tim') Munby was a prisoner in Germany during World War II. --Munby's spectres haunt locations as diverse as a Bristol bookshop, a Tudor Hall, the Snowdonian mountains, the peaceful Herefordshire countryside, a Book of Hours, and the remote Cuillin mountain range of the Isle of Skye. --Munby skilfully brings his own specialised antiquarian knowledge to each of the stories in this, his own tribute to the great M.R. James. The Alabaster Hand is recognised as a genuine cornerstone of supernatural literature --- stories include: Herodes Redivivus; Inscription; The Alabaster Hand; Topley Place Sale; Tudor Chimney; Christmas Game; White Sack; Four-Poster; Negro's Head; Tregannet Book Hours; Encounter in Mist; Lectern; Number Seventy-Nine; Devil's Autograph"… Read More

London: Dennis Dobson Ltd.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1950. 2nd printing. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [minor shelfwear to bottom edge, tiny remnants of a removed old price sticker adhered to upper corner of front endpaper, previous owner's initials plus date & place of purchase and brief commentary written in ink at edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath rear jacket flap); jacket has slight wear at extremities, internal and external tape reinforcement across top of spine, sun-browning to spine panel]. Fourteen tales of the supernatural, written (per the author's Foreword) "between 1943 and 1945 in a prison-camp just outside the ancient walled town of Eichstätt in Upper Franconia." Sez the jacket blurb: "Although written by a scholar, the style is pleasantly urbane and idiomatic and should therefore have universal appeal. Horror is not piled upon horror for the sake of raising the reader's hackles. Instead, an effect of complete normality is… Read More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1950. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, American issue from British sheets. Fine in about fine dust jacket with a little wrinkle on the rear panel. Ghost stories written when the author was an inmate of a German POW camp. A lovely copy.

Pennyffordd: Ash-tree Press, 1995. One of 250 copies. 132, [5] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket by Rachel Crittenden. Bookplate of Stuart B. Schimmel. One of 250 copies. 132, [5] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. 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.

Dennis Dobson, London., 1949. First edition. Octavo. 192 pages. Fourteen ghost stories composed in prison camp in World War Two - three of them were originally published in the camp magazine, Touchstone.Fore-edge lightly spotted. Very good indeed in very good, slightly rubbed dustwrapper with several nicks.

London : Dennis Dobson, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 192p. ; 18cm. Subjects: Ghost stories.