The phrase "an apparition of a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a ghostly figure or a vision that appears suddenly, often in a literary or supernatural context.
Example: "As the fog rolled in, an apparition of a woman in white appeared before him, her face hauntingly familiar."
Alternatives: "a vision of a" or "a ghostly figure of a".
The hikers pass by a waterfall of downward harp and scales and see an apparition of a mountain spirit.
It looks like an apparition of a building, with the wavy rows of windows snaking their way down the facade.
Twice, while walking by in the evening, customers noticed an apparition of a woman through the store windows.
I was really interested in writing almost an apparition of a female character who couldn't get caught or touched or even identified but who wasn't doing what she was doing out of malice or revenge.
A buckled bunk bed is swathed under a gold-plated mosquito net in Steve McQueen's Weight, as much an apparition of a frowzy and squalidly magnificent bridal bed as a real object.
It's an apparition of a movie: Hi and Ed live in a yellow mobile home with rooms that are huge — big enough for Sergio Leone to shoot in — and the home sits in a Tempe, Arizona, trailer park at the edge of a Pop-art version of the desert.
The whole idea is to make language perform its own little supernatural act, which is to turn marks on a page into an emotion, an effect, an apparition of something that is not there, a ghost.
Then he described how the couturier, who is starting to go mad, stares at a mannequin, which suddenly becomes an apparition of the woman he loves.
As I approached, I had the vertiginous experience of confronting not so much an image as an apparition of the saint himself.
A comedy from Croatia called "Marsal" (known in English as "Marshall Tito's Spirit"), directed by Vinko Bresan, illustrates that country's confused transition from Communism to capitalism by telling of an apparition of Marshall Tito on a Croatian island.
As he carries his quarry through the woods, Tyrone meets, among others, a talking octopus and an apparition of the girlfriend (Kate Lyn Sheil) he left behind when he joined the Army.
