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A Book of Ghosts
S. Baring-Gould
1904
Methuen & Co : London
8" by 5.5"
[8], 383, [1], 40pp
SUMMARY
The second edition of this collection of spooky supernatural stories by Sabine Baring-Gould.
Illustrated,Publishers Original Binding
Overall Condition: Good
This book weighs0.75 KG when packed
UK Postage: £ 3.99
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DESCRIPTION
The second edition, published two months after the first. Published in Methuens 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 Halifaxs 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 publishers 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.
Overall Condition: Good
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
(Dustwrapper condition rating is shown after that for the book itself, where a dustwrapper is present)
Fine- Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
Very Good Indeed- Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy
Very Good- Quite a wide term meaning no major faults but probably several smaller ones
often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
Good- Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will
be described in the condition report under condition
Good Only- Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair
Fair- As with good only above but with other faults
leaving a compromised copy even after repair
Poor- Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.
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attractive none the less. Major defects will be described.
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