The Allington Inheritance. de WENTWORTH (Patricia [i.e., Nora Amy Dillon Turnbull]) - 1960

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1960. Sm.cr.8vo; integral advertisement leaf at end, blank on recto; pp.222+[ii]; dull dark blue fine-cloth-textured boards, blocked and lettered gilt on spine. Rubber-stamp and ink number on front end-paper, and rubber-stamp on title-page (v. note); otherwise a fine copy in the minutely nicked and creased dust-wrapper with rubber-stamp on back panel. The Publisher’s File Copy, so designated by the rubber-stamp on the end-paper; those on the title-page and dust-wrapper identify it as a Publicity Dept. copy. The thirty-first ‘Miss Silver’ book. Hubin, p.431. The first English edition of a title published in America in 1958. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated.