BENNETT (Arnold). Elsie and the Child: A Tale of Riceyman Steps And Other Stories. Cassell and Company, Ltd, London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne, 1924. Olive brown fine rough buckram ruled and lettered black on front cover, lettered black on spine; lower-edges uncut. Back end-paper creased; otherwise a nice copy.

GB £70.00

US $112.00

Advance copy, with the publisher’s presentation stamp in blind on title-page, and some pencil notes on the back end-paper, evidently relating to a review. Half a dozen pages have related pencil scoring and notes. From the library of Dr. Desmond Flower, whose father, Sir Newman Flower, bought Cassell’s for £100,000 in 1927: but without signs of ownership. The notes are not in Desmond Flower’s hand. Emery, 49. In this copy the following errata and typographical flaws have been noted: p.29, l.5, risen quad and space at end of line; p.33, l.20, broken ‘g’ in ‘ing’; p.47, l.30, battered comma after ‘call’; p.62, last line, ‘he had’ and ‘g’ of ‘virginal’ badly battered; p.69, l.7, broken ‘d’ at end of line; p.71, last line, ‘g’ of ‘going’, ‘C’ of ‘Crary’ battered; p.72, risen furniture at top corners of page; p.88, l.9, tail of ‘p’ battered in ‘past’; p.89, l.32 ‘s’ in ‘ship’ defective; p.118, l.1, ‘li’ of ‘provincialism’ and ‘st’ ‘tl’ and ‘d’ in ‘startled’ battered; p.119, last line, ‘g’ in ‘gaze’ battered; p.125, l.27, second ‘l’ in ‘you’ll’ dropped; p.164, l.11, dropped ‘i’ in ‘in’; p.192, last line, first four words and ‘decided’ and ‘depart’ slightly battered; p.202, l.2, ‘r’ in ‘door’ battered; p.215, l.7, ‘he’ in ‘she’ battered; p.219, l.1, dot of ‘i’ lacking at start of line; p.225, l.6, ‘in’ of ‘being’ partly printed faint; p.234, l.36, ‘ll’ of ‘call’ printed faint; pp.253, 259, 261, 263, and 267 ‘t’ in ‘Perfect’ in running title has bar over it; p.264, l.7, ‘e’ in second ‘the’ broken; p.275, l.20, ‘i’ of ‘in’ battered; p.279, l.5, shoulders of colon printed; p.294, l.36, ‘hours’ for ‘bours’. There are in addition many instances of a dropped ‘s’, as, for instance, p.45, l.21, in second ‘she’, p.89, l.26, in ‘was’, p.127, l.29, in ‘miles’, p.202, l.3, in ‘was’, p.225, l.1, in ‘was’, p.279, l.15, in ‘as’, p.291, l.20, in ‘discretion’, p.302, l.8, in ‘as’, and p.304, l.15, in ‘was’.
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