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First Edition. Hard cover, 8vo, in publisher's brown cloth boards with gold lettering to spine. Dust jacket illustration by Ionicus of a barge passing under a stone footbridge. COLLATION: 190pp., [2]. CONDITION: Near Fine, with covers fresh and bright, with the ghost of a pencilled price mark to the front free endpaper. Dust jacket Fine (now protected in mylar). ** AUTHOR Mary Williams (1903-2000) was an English author who moved to Cornwall in 1947 and married a bilingual Welshman, thus in close proximity to two sources of Celtic sensibilities. She published several collections of ghost stories and other tales of the supernatural, as well as a handful of novels. ** The title story, "Haunted Waters", is a ghost story tied a place, much like Algernon Blackwood's "The Willows", and evokes the natural surroundings of a river and a canal, with echoes of its history both as a trade route and as the setting for.... but I won't spoil the story - suffice to say that Mary Williams was a gifted writer who managed to skillfully merge the world of spirits with the world we inhabit... The "Haunted Waters" collection also contains the short stories "Coppard's End", "The Eyes to See", and the novelette "Dorothea". ** Dust jacket ILLUSTRATOR, Ionicus, a.k.a. Joshua Charles Armitage (1913-1998), was a prolific contributor to Punch magazine, as well as a cover illustrator for the Penguin editions of P.G. Wodehouse. ** REFS: Internet Speculative Fiction Database #1298815.
Ref: GHOST 9295
$195.00