A Memoir of Montague Rhodes James with a list of his writings de S G Lubbock, A F Scholfield - 1939

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1939 A good to very good copy of this scarce contemporary biography of M R James. Samuel Gurney Lubbock (1862-1936) knew James from his early years and planned the work as a 'personal sketch' or portrait, encouraged by others from James' circle. It is not an objective analytical biography but it does give a picture of James's life. There is a list of M R James' writings at the rear compiled by A F Scholfield. It is in the original green cloth with gilt titles to spine. The boards have some faded areas and the spine is faded. There is pulling to spine ends and some corner wear. Internally there is the bookplate of James Orton and a label titled 'M R James Collection' to the front pastedown endpaper. Contents complete and clean, with frontispiece and 2 further plates. There is some browning to the free endpapers and the backing is visible between pages 32/33, but the binding is sound. There are old pencil notes on the rear pastedown and some items in the listing of works have small light pencil ticks against them.