[Rarebooks] FS - "Onward Christian Ghosts"

[GREENFIELD BOOKS]

*BARING-GOULD, S., M.A., /A BOOK OF GHOSTS/.* Bound in original red 
cloth elaborately lettered in gilt. Methuen & Co., London, 1904. 1st 
edition, 8vo, pp. 383, 40 [ads].

Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) was an English divine, hagiographer and 
author of many works on travel, folklore, and the
macabre (his bibliography lists over 500 titles). He also wrote the 
words for the famous hymn "Onward Christian Soldiers". This title, a 
collection of 21 ghost stories, is almost as famous as his seminal work 
on lycanthropy, "The Book of Werewolves", but it is much harder to find 
in a first edition. Our copy is a true first, in the original cloth 
binding, and with Methuen's 40-page catalogue at the end, dated 
September, 1904. It is bumped at the corners and shows slight wear to 
the extremities. There is some very light overall soiling to the cloth, 
but the elaborate gilt title (blocked to the front board) is unmarred 
and bright. The foredges of the text block are spotted, and there are 
occasional outbreaks of foxing to the contents (more so to the 
preliminaries). All of the eight full-page illustrations by D. Murray 
Smith are present and in very good condition. There is a former owner's 
bookplate on the front pastedown, but no other former owner's markings. 
The binding is a bit dry, and "crackling" when opened, but nothing is 
loose and the endpapers and hinges are tight. A good plus copy of a very 
scarce title.

Price: $500.00.

Terms of sale - The price is in USD, and the book is offered subject to 
prior sale. Payment by check or credit card. Postage and packing charge 
is $7.50. Returnable within seven days if receipt if not as described.

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