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London : Ward, Lock & Co., (1945). First edition. “As I see it, Major Pleydell, the exact position is this. When you and your cousins inherited White Ladies, the cost of maintaining the place as your father and his brother had maintained it was less than three thousand a year. To-day it is nearly eight thousand – eight thousand pounds”.
Crown 8vo (20cm). 286,[ii]pp. Original pale blue cloth, lettered across spine in black; a very good, clean and sound copy in the original pictorial Campbell dust-jacket – a little sunned, reinforced in places and lightly edge-worn at foot.

£40

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London : Ward, Lock & Co., (1952). First edition. A conversation piece – a memoir of both Yates and his most famous creation. “Provoking and absorbing ... a wealth of detail on matters of which, generally, little is known. Glimpses of behind the scenes of authorship and the law courts” (The Scotsman, 25th December 1952).
Post 8vo (21cm). [ii],(286)pp. Original black cloth, lettered across spine in gilt; top edge red; a few faint marks, endpapers lightly tanned, but otherwise a very good, clean and sound copy in the dust-jacket, complete with the original wrap-around band – also very good, with just some minor wear and a few repaired nicks and short tears.

£40

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London : Ward, Lock & Co., (1958). First edition. Further reminiscence and memoir from Yates and Berry. “An amazing book of reflections and reminiscences on the Bar, the advisability of capital punishment, the old school, the malice of some critics who are not of the old school, the hall-marks of silver, the cutting of diamonds, the beastliness of Oscar Wilde, and many other fascinating topics” (The Tatler, 21st January 1959).
Post 8vo (21cm). (286),[ii]pp. Original black cloth, lettered across spine in gilt; top edge yellow; a few faint marks; mild tanning of endpapers, but a very good, clean and sound copy in the Peter Rudland dust-jacket – just faintly tanned, but with a single repaired short tear at foot and otherwise very good indeed.

£25

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