TOM OSSINGTON'S GHOST. London: The Literary Press Ltd., n.d. 16mo, pp. [1-4] 1-314 [315] [316: blank], original blue boards, spine panel stamped in black. Later edition. Cheap 1920s reprint of a ghost novel first published in 1898 by James Bowen. Woman receives telepathic communication from dead husband as to location of hidden family fortune. Rather weak mystery with supernatural elements by the author of a much better horror novel, THE BEETLE (1897). Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1113. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 354. Wolff 4566 (1st UK). Not in Hubin (1994). A fine copy in very good pictorial dust jacket. (#170122).
Price: $100.00
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