Mayor ([Flora McDonald]) The Room Opposite, first edition, presentation copy with ink inscription "Lily | in memory of the author" on front free endpaper, pages lightly toned at margins with the odd spot, original cloth, light strip of fading to upper edge, spine ends a little creased, overall excellent, 8vo, 1935.*** A curious inscription, though written 3 years after the author's death in 1932. Her masterpiece, The Rector's Daughter, was published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press in 1924. This collection includes several traditional ghost stories after the manner of M. R. James, who reviewed the pieces "which introduce the supernatural commend themselves to me very strongly." - front flap of dust-jacket.