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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 – a little sunned, reinforced in places and lightly edge-worn at foot.