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Pfaff, Richard William
Montague Rhodes James [M. R. James]
Publisher: Scholar’s Press, London;
Date of Publication: 1980
Stock Code: 12120
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[xiv]461. Publisher’s Prussian blue cloth with title gilt to spine in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Light sunning to top of spine small rift in cloth of lower spine. A celebrated writer of ghost stories, this biography of Montague Rhodes James explores another side of the author. Pfaff studies James’ outstanding academic and professional career achievements, with a focus on his time as a leading antiquarian, Dean of King’s College, Vice Chancellor of Cambridge, and Provost of Eton. £100.00