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Alan Noel Latimer Munby
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Alan Noel Latimer ('Tim') Munby (1913–1974) was an English author, writer and librarian.
Born in Hampstead, Munby was educated at Clifton College and King's College, Cambridge. He is best known for his five-volume study of the eccentric nineteenth-century book collector Sir Thomas Phillipps, and for his slim volume of ghost stories, The Alabaster Hand, which includes three tales written in Oflag VII B, a German prisoner-of-war camp near Eichstätt, during World War II. These stories – 'The Topley Place Sale', 'The Four Poster' and 'The White Sack' – featured in a prison-camp magazine, Touchstone, edited by Elliott Viney, which was produced on a printing press owned by the Bishop of Eichstätt, Michael Rackl.
Munby worked in the antiquarian book trade with Bernard Quaritch, Limited (1935–37) and Sotheby & Company (1937–39, 1945–47). He became Librarian at King's College, Cambridge in 1947 and Fellow in 1948; he was J. P. R. Lyell Reader in Bibliography, University of Oxford (1962–63) and Sandars Reader in Bibliography, University of Cambridge (1969–70). He was elected President of the Bibliographical Society in 1974 and died during his term of office.
Boucher and McComas praised the stories in The Alabaster Hand as "quietly terrifying modernizations of the M.R. James tradition".
Munby married twice. His first marriage was to Joan Margaret Edelsten; and his second to Sheila Rachel Crowther-Smith.
(ed.) Letters to Leigh Hunt from his son Vincent (Cloanthus Press, 1934)
(with Desmond Flower) English Poetical Autographs (Cassell, 1938)
"Some Caricatures of Book-Collectors – An Essay" (printed for private circulation by William H. Robinson Ltd, Christmas 1948)
The Alabaster Hand and other Ghost Stories (Dobson, 1949)
Phillips Studies, 5 vols. (Cambridge University Press, 1951–1960)
The Cult of the Autograph Letter in England (London: Athlone Press, 1962)
Connoisseurs and Medieval Miniatures 1750-1850 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972)
Essays and Papers (ed. Nicolas Barker) (Scolar Press, 1977)
The Four-Poster. Touchstone, December 1944.
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