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Denys Val Baker - Phantom Lovers
« Thread Started on Sept 7, 2007, 6:40am »

Denys Val Baker (ed.) - Phantom Lovers (William Kimber 1984)

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R. Chetwynd-Hayes - Lord Dunwilliam and the Cwn Annwn
Fred Urquhart - Dust Fills Helen's Eyes
James Turner - Love Affair
James Lasdun - The Cat
Maggie Ross - Kevin
J.C. Trewin - Special Performance
Washington Irving - The Spectre Bridegroom
Ronald Blythe - Everything a Man Needs
A.L. Barker - The Old Man's Story
Derek Stanford - Window-Dressing
Denys Val Baker - The Haunting of Angela Prendergast
Rosemary Timperley - The Walker-Out
Rosalind Wade - Guch Cottage
Mary Williams - Anna

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Apparently William Kimber knew almost exactly to the book how many copies of each he could shift to libraries, so he almost never made a loss.

Here's Chetwynd-Hayes on Kimber and libraries (from the Steve Jones & Jo Fletcher interview in Skeleton Crew, Sept. 1990, yet again).

"Kimber was always very good to me", he explains. "I had to cater for the public library trade, which is really middle-aged ladies and they like a gentle ghost story. I don't regret that. I'd love to get into paperbacks again - that's where the real money is and, of course, you get mass readership there as well. Still, you probably get as many readers eventually through library editions. I was averaging 18, 000 borrowings per book per year."

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