Title:A College Mystery: the Story of the Apparition in the Fellows' Garden at Christ's College, Cambridge
Author:Baker, Arthur Ponsford
Price:GBP£60.00 (about USD$80.80)
Item ID:B009-5092
Quantity:1
Publisher:W. Heffer & Sons Ltd, Cambridge, 1918
Edition:First
Illustrator:Frank Harold Round
Binding:Hardcover (Original Cloth)
Condition:Good
Dust Jacket:No
b/w. frontis. illust. & titles followed by dedication & author's preface, contents, list of illustrations & editor's preface. Christ's College, Cambridge, is the location of this intriguing ghost story which relates to three people: one life was destroyed, another ended, and the happiness of the third ruined. Why did four eminent residents of the Fellows building -who claimed to have witnessed an apparition refuse to have their full names revealed? Why did Christopher Round prohibit publication of his records for at least fifty years after his death? Illustrated with b/w. drawings by F. H. Round but LACKING drawing number VI (MILTON'S WALK, Christ's Pieces) Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. xii + 76. Some wear to top & bottom of spine. Endpapers browned, text block clean. Previous owner's signature in ink to fep.. Deckled outer & bottom edges (rough cut). Gilt titles spine & front with college arms in gilt & blind-stamped outer border to front. some wear to spine ends & outer corners; lacking drawing VI.. Illustrator: Frank Harold Round. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Fiction; Ghost Stories; Christ's College, Cambridge; Cambridge University; England; Myths, Legends & Folklore. Inventory No: 5092.