[6] His scholarly publications include a five-volume study of the eccentric nineteenth-century book collector Sir Thomas Phillipps (1951–1960); a twelve-volume series of Sale Catalogues of Libraries of Eminent Persons (1971–1975); and a posthumously published union list of British Book Sale Catalogues, 1676–1800 (1977), compiled with Lenore Coral.
[7] Munby is also remembered for a 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, Bavaria.
These stories – "The Topley Place Sale", "The Four Poster" and "The White Sack" – featured in a prison-camp magazine, Touchstone, edited by Elliott Viney.
[1][9] Munby built up a major collection of the works of Thomas Babington Macaulay, which he donated during his lifetime to Trinity College, Cambridge.
[3][10] Following his death, a Munby Fellowship in Bibliography was established in Cambridge University Library in his memory, with money subscribed by his friends.