The Occult Files Of Francis Chard: Some Ghost Stories (Hugh Lamb's copy) by Burrage, A. M - 1996

Ash-Tree Press: Pennyffordd, Chester, 1996. First edition (& 1st printing). Hardcover. Second volume of the five volume Collected Stories from Ash-Tree Press. Collects twenty-six stories, ten featuring the occult detective Francis Chard, and two other stories and a novella (all first published here in book form) and the thirteen stories published in SOME GHOST STORIES (1927). 500 copies printed. Note: this copy is from UK horror editor Hugh Lamb's library, and is signed and dated (Jan 97) by him on the front free endpaper. Laid in are two handwritten postcards to Hugh from Ash-Tree Press Publishers Barbara Roden and Christopher Roden: Barbara Roden writes (in part)/''Dear Hugh, Enclosed is your copy of Burrage's ''The Occult Files of Francis Chard - thanks for your help with it.''. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).