A College Mystery by A P Baker (Circle of M R James)

A College Mystery
The Story of the apparition in the fellows' garden at Christ's College Cambridge.
By A P Baker
With five drawings by F H Round.
First Edition published in 1923 by W Heffer & Sons Ltd, Cambridge, 1923
(Jacket second state jacket, the first state jacket wasn't pictorial, and was plain paper)

Book: Vg Blue cloth with gilt titles and designs. The lightest rubbing to the spine tips otherwise a descent copy. Internally, pages are uniformly toned, tightly bound.
Jacket: Vg, small loss to the top of the spine, light chipping to lower spine and hinge corners. A couple of pieces of archival tape to the verso at hinge corners. Toned to edges. Superb pictorial jacket is extremely scarce.

* A P Baker’s wonderful supernatural tale 'A College Mystery' was thought by many to be a true account upon its publication as it is written in a style to appear as such. In the foreword Baker thanks his friend, the provost of Eton for reading through the manuscript and offering kindly comment, that was of course 'Monty' M R James. Beautiful, eerie illustrations inside by F H Round a couple of which remind me of The Mezzotint by MRJ.