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THE FIVE JARS ...
London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1922. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5 [6] 7 [8-10] 11-172, seven inserted plates with illustrations by Gilbert James, original orange cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, fore-edge rough-trimmed, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. "A semi-juvenile story told in the form of a long letter to a young friend ... Light, fanciful, mildly ironic, and very pleasurable reading." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 914. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-192. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 234. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 108. Reginald 07816.
THE FIVE JARS. Introduction by Rosemary Pardoe.
Penyffordd, Chester: Ash-Tree Press, 1995. Octavo, cloth. Later edition. Limited to 300 copies. The Ash-Tree Press edition adds a new introduction by Rosemary Pardoe. The second book published by the Ash-Tree Press and their first hardcover volume, preceded by LADY STANHOPE'S MANUSCRIPT AND OTHER SUPERNATURAL TALES.
THE FIVE JARS. Introduction by Rosemary Pardoe.
Penyffordd, Chester: Ash-Tree Press, 1995. Octavo, cloth. Later edition. Limited to 300 copies. The Ash-Tree Press edition adds a new introduction by Rosemary Pardoe. The second book published by the Ash-Tree Press and their first hardcover volume, preceded by LADY STANHOPE'S MANUSCRIPT AND OTHER SUPERNATURAL TALES.
A PLEASING TERROR: THE COMPLETE SUPERNATURAL WRITINGS OF M. R. JAMES. Introduction by Steve Duffy.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2001. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 1000 copies. A definitive edition of the supernatural fiction of James, including stories and fragments left out of the collected edition of 1931, as well as writings by James about the ghost story and secondary material about this author, one of the chief architects of the twentieth-century ghost story.