Member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association. The recycled packaging tape is also solvent-free. Each book is wrapped in acid-free paper, within a rigid bio-degradable cardboard mailer and a waterproof fully-recyclable mailing envelope. Safe & Sustainable Packaging: All of our books are shipped in eco-friendly packaging. Further Information: We are always happy to provide additional images or detail on request. He later became a scholar and college librarian. About This Book: A classic collection of urbane and idiosyncratic ghost stories written while the author was a prisoner of war in World War II. Catalogue and price inscriptions (in pencil) to the front free endpaper.
2013 Language English Dimensions 14.8 x 1. The binding is tight and the pages are moderately tanned. Munby (Author) 9 ratings See all formats and editions Hardcover ISBN-10 1908274123 ISBN-13 978-1908274120 Publisher The Sundial Press Publication date 28 Jun. There are two closed tears to the front panel, and one closed tear to the back panel. The jacket is clean and bright, within a clear protective cover. The book is in very good condition in a good dust jacket. Instead, an effect of complete normality is obtained, so that the spine is chilled by the knowledge that everyday life is only too liable to psychic contagion, that the devil may lurk in old title pages and ghosts haunt the bookshop.". Horror is not piled upon horror for the sake of raising the reader's hackles. Fourteen tales of the supernatural, written (per the author's Foreword) "between 19 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.
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