The Case of William Smith. de WENTWORTH (Patricia [i.e., Nora Amy Dillon Turnbull]) - 1950

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1950. Sm.cr.8vo; integral advertisement leaf at end, verso blank; pp.254+[ii]; bright jade green cloth, lettered black on front cover, lettered, ruled, and blocked with publisher’s monogram black on spine. Rubber-stamps and ink numbers on front end-papers and title-page (v. note); otherwise a fine copy in slightly frayed pictorial dust-wrapper with unobtrusive number written on the spine. The Publisher’s File Copy, so designated by the rubber-stamps. The fourteenth ‘Miss Silver’ book. Hubin, p.431. The first English edition of a title published in America in 1948. The following errata and typographical faults have been noted in this copy: p.12, penultimate line, raised space before ‘Cole’; p.23, l.26, ‘though’ for ‘thought’; p.24, l.33, raised space beyond right margin; p.68, l.1, risen space before ‘wasn’t’; p.72, ll.4 and 5, risen space after ‘the’ and ‘added’, l.6, ‘he tu’ battered, l.22, ‘go’ missed out after ‘do’; p.76, penultimate line ‘p’ at start to left of line; p.87, l.8 of text, faint risen space after ‘mortuary’, and l.27, after ‘fluffy’; p.99, last line, risen space before ‘put’; p.100, last line, risen space after ‘as’; p.113, l.13 of text, risen space after ‘it’; p.129, l.29, risen space before ‘whether’, last two lines, risen quads before ‘accept’, ‘You’, ‘have’, ‘kept’, ‘a’, and ‘good’; p.148 last line, risen space before ‘as’; p.150, l.34, space instead of ‘and’ before the third ‘I’ and the ‘I’ battered; p.153, l.2, risen quad before ‘convinced’; p.202, l.2, ‘f’ of ‘yourself’ broken; p.209, l.11 of text, improper spacing between ‘m’ and ‘a’ in ‘made’; p.216, l.21, risen space before ‘Brett’, l.29, before ‘I’, and l.32, before ‘appointment’; p.220, l.7, risen quad before ‘its’, l.9, risen quads before ‘and’ and ‘up’; p.244, l.16 of text, ‘retraint’ for ‘restraint’; p.252, l.30, risen quad before ‘saw’. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated.