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ePUB A.N.L. Munby ä ä The Alabaster Hand PDF/EPUB ✓ The Alabaster PDF or alabaster download, hand book, The Alabaster pdf, The Alabaster Hand PDFAlan Noel Latimer 'Tim' Munby 19131974 was a pioneering book collector and one of the twentieth century's most eminent librarians He studied at King’s College in the 1930s before working in the antiuarian book trade with Bernard uaritch and Sotheby’s and he was librarian of King's College for twenty seven years the library’s Rare Books Reading Room is named after him The Alabaster Hand and Other Ghost Stories Munby's only book of supernatural tales was published by Dennis Dobson Ltd in 1949 The fourteen tales in the collection were all written by Munby between 1943 and 1945 while he was a prisoner of war in Oflag VIIB on the edge of the town of Eichstätt in Bavaria Having travelle
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