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FIRST EDITION. Half title. Orig. dark grey cloth, blocked & lettered in lighter grey with a spider-web motif; extremities sl. rubbed. A lovely copy. Includes five stories: 'The Residence at Whitminster', 'The Diary of Mr. Poynter', 'An Episode of Cathedral History', 'The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance', and 'Two Doctors'. This was James's third collection of short stories following Ghost Story of an Antiquary (1904) and More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1911). He writes in the preface: 'I have had my doubts about the wisdom of publishing a third set of tales; sequels are, not only proverbially but actually, very hazardous things. However, the tales make no pretence but to amuse, and my friends have not seldom asked for the publication. So not a great deal is risked, and perhaps also some one's Christmas may be the cheerfuller for a story-book which, I think, only once mentions the war'. Montague Rhodes James, 1862-1936, was a scholar, author, and school and university provost first at Cambridge and then at Eton College. His medieval history scholarship is still highly regarded, but he is now best remembered for his ghost stories, which he originally read to friends and students for entertainment around Christmas.…