The Black Poodle: And Other Tales by F. Anstey

The Black Poodle: And Other Tales by F. Anstey

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The Black Poodle: And Other Tales by F. Anstey

The Black Poodle: And Other Tales by F. Anstey

$50.00 USD
The Black Poodle: And Other Tales by F. Anstey

Authors: F. Anstey

Location: London

Publisher: Longmans, Green, & Co.

Date: 1888

Features: Title page dated 1888. Third Edition, stated. Red cloth with black lettering and pictorial design; black endpapers. Frontispiece; illustrated. 269 pp. Publisher's adverts laid in at rear. Collection of stories, some of which are supernatural. E. G Swain's Copy with his bookplate attached to the front pastedown. Edmund Gill Swain (19 February 1861 – 29 January 1938) was an English cleric and author. As a chaplain of King's College, Cambridge, he was a colleague and contemporary of the scholar and author M. R. James, and a regular member of the select group to whom James delivered his famous annual Christmas Eve reading of a ghost story composed specially for the occasion. Swain collaborated with James on topical skits for amateur performance in Cambridge, but he is known best for the collection of ghost stories he published in 1912, entitled The Stoneground Ghost Tales. He also wrote a history of Peterborough Cathedral.

Book Condition: Very Good-: A firm copy with moderate wear to spine cloth, joints, and spine edges; bumping to corners. Tanning to spine; mild soiling to cover. Small loss to upper corner of frontispiece. Owner's label to front pastedown; pencil writing to frontispiece verso. No jacket present.

Notes: Author's name pseudonym of Thomas Anstey Guthrie.

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