A VICTIM OF CIRCUMSTANCES and other stories.
Pp. xii+308; light blue cloth, lettered and ruled in navy, top fore-corners of boards bruised, spine cloth slightly faded, faint damp stain to bottom fore-corners of boards; bottom edges uncut; dust wrapper, lightly soiled (heavier on backstrip), edges worn, with several small chips and splits, small piece torn from head of backstrip; text block faintly browned, a little light foxing; Constable & Co Ltd, London, 1927. First edition. Coustillas A33.1; Collie XXX. *With publisher's review slip (dated 7.77) loosely inserted. Posthumously published. Fifteen short stories 'previously lost in Magazines or in some cases left by him in manuscript' [wrapper blurb]. Coustillas (p. 405 notes that in this edition the text of one story, The Fate of Humphrey Snell, is faulty: 'a passage of about 156 lines on p./ 60, beginning at line 7 after "London" was skipped by the printers'. Item #150534
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