Description: Title: Tedious Brief Tales of Granta and Gramarye Author: Ingulphus (Arthur Gray, Master of Jesus College), with illustrations by E. Joyce Shillington Scales Publisher: W Heffer and Sons Ltd, Cambridge Edition: First Edition, First Printing Date Printed: 1919 Description: An excellent example of the beautifully-produced first printing of the first edition. Original pictorial hardback in its matching original dust jacket. 9 inches by 7 inches. The dust jacket is in very pleasing condition, clean and bright with some light wear, and a small chip to the top of the spine (see pictures). The book itself is in similarly attractive condition with just the lightest hint of bumping to the corner-tips and spine-ends (see pictures). Binding sound and square. Internally clean and bright. Signature of R A Hill to front endpaper. An unusually fine example. Arthur Gray (1852-1940), served as Master of Jesus College Cambridge from 1912 until his death. Sharing the fashionable donnish predilection for the supernatural, he published two ghost stories in university journals in 1910. This inspired a Cambridge Review poem in 1911 suggesting that they were the work either of M R James or A C Benson. The 1919 Heffer edition collected all the Gray ghost stories that had appeared up to then. The pen name Ingulphus is a scholarly joke at the author's own expense, Ingulf, an eleventh century abbot, having been unfairly supposed to be the author of a fabulous, badly-written, and demonstrably inaccurate history of Crowland Abbey. We take great care in the packaging of all our books to ensure that they arrive as described. We accept PayPal worldwide. Please view our other books now on sale at our ebay shop Goodman Books. We have over 4,500 books for sale at all prices and on all subjects, with strong sections of Modern First Editions, Detective Fiction and Signed Books. We have been successfully trading on ebay for seventeen years, and are proud of our reputation for honesty and trustworthiness - buy with confidence from an established bookseller.
Price: 750 GBP
Location: Hornchurch
End Time: 2024-11-30T09:32:36.000Z
Shipping Cost: 19.41 GBP
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Format: Hardback with Jacket
Year Printed: 1919
Modified Item: No
Original/Reproduction: Original
Condition: Excellent
Weight: 333g
Author: Arthur Gray
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Illustrated
