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Munby's first marriage, soon after the arrival of war in 1939, was to Joan
Margaret Edelsten. When he was able to return to England in 1945, he was shocked to learn that she had just died. He soon married secondly Sheila Crowther-Smith, a long-standing family friend, and they had a son, Giles Munby.
375:. He also accumulated a working collection of 7000–8000 volumes of early bibliography, sale catalogues, and material relating to libraries, the book trade, and connoisseurship, including many rarities: part of this collection (approximately 1800 volumes) was acquired after his death by
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Following his death, a Munby
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Alan Noel
Latimer Munby T.D., Litt.D. 1913–1974: A Memoir composed by direction of the Council of King's College, Cambridge
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The reading room for rare books in
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and book collector. He is also remembered as the author of a volume of ghost stories written in the tradition of
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His scholarly publications include a five-volume study of the eccentric nineteenth-century book collector Sir
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Hobson, Anthony (2015) . "Munby, Alan Noel
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English writer, poet or playwright is a
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Munby is also remembered for a slim volume of ghost stories,
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57:and his wife Ethel Greenhill. He was educated at
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