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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 – just very 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.
Post 8vo (21cm). [ii],(286)pp. Original black cloth, lettered across spine in gilt; top edge red; a few faint marks, endpapers lightly browned, but otherwise a very good, clean and sound copy in the original dust-jacket, complete with the original wrap-around band – also very good, with minimal wear and just a couple of short nicks.

£25

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London : Ward, Lock & Co., (1958). First edition. Further reminiscence and memoir from Yates and Berry.
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 otherwise very good indeed.

£25

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