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LOT 3576
30th November 2021
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LOT 3576
[TYPESCRIPT.] - Trevor HALL. Marianne Foyster of Borley Rectory. A Biographical, Psychological, and Psychical Investigation. [N.p.:] Leeds, 1958. Vol. V. One of 3 copies only, large 8vo (250 x 183mm.) Mounted photograph of Marianne Foyster verso the initial blank, long hand-written authorial note signed and dated by the author on the initial blank, title-page with hand-written annotation, 11pp. duplicate type 'Introductory Note' recto only, 122pp. duplicate type main text recto only, 5pp. 'Index' recto only. (Mild toning.) Contemporary brown morocco, gilt borders with corner-pieces and lettering to upper cover, gilt turn-ins. Note: includes a loosely inserted typed a.l.s. where Trevor Hall says that this volume 'gives the last word, in my opinion, on the Borley mystery but which for obvious reasons can never be published'. It's understandable. Hall has written an astonishing, if possibly fevered, account of the life of Marianne Foyster which makes the supernatural hauntings of Borley Rectory pale in comparison. It's worth remembering, as Marianne herself does in these recorded interviews, that her incumbency of the rectory is only one part of the Borley story. It was known as the most haunted house in England before being demolished in 1944. But this manuscript conveys a sense that the incumbent may have been haunted, as much as the house. - And a related volume, the book that Trevor Hall felt able to publish ('The Haunting of Borley Rectory' by Eric J. Dingwall, Kathleen M. Goldney and Trevor Hall, 1956, 8vo). Provenance: T. Morely (named recipient of the a.l.s.); by descent, from the estate of Barry Murray (2).
Hammer price: £320
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