THE OLD NIGHT-WATCHMAN THE GHOST OF SPIXWORTH HALL: A NORFOLK GHOST STORY AND OTHER ANECDOTES by Arthur Longe (who saw the apparition). [Ipswich: W. S. Cowell Ltd, April 1950.]. Square octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-44, illustrations, facsimiles, original gray cloth printed in green. First edition. English local history that includes a true ghost story. Perhaps of more interest for Longe's account of sheep ranching in British Columbia in the 1890s. His brother Charles Longe drove 200 sheep from Fort Wrangle to Dawson City, the first fresh meat to reach Dawson during the Klondike Gold Rush. As there was no coinage there the meat was exchanged for gold nuggets, "of which there was a plenty." Not in Wickersham. Front free endpaper missing, a very good copy. This perhaps was a family copy. There is a long newspaper article by Bryan Hall about Spixworth Hall pasted to the rear endpapers with a neat note in an unknown hand that reads: "Writer not known by author." A scarce book. (#170831).
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