Photo-Finish. by MARSH (Ngaio) - 1980

Collins, St James’s Place, London, 1980. Double lge,post 16mo; two blanks at front, three at end, the outermost serving as paste-downs; pp.[iv]+262+[vi]; scarlet fine cloth-textured boards, blocked with publisher’s device and lettered gilt on spine. Contemporary ownership inscription on front free end-paper; slight creasing to spine; otherwise a virtually fine copy in dust-wrapper. In this copy the following errata and typographical flaws have been noted: p.54, l.30, ‘ring’ for ‘rung’; p.88, l.28, ‘from’ for ‘for’; p.91, l.32, ‘no’ battered at start; p.99, ll.19 - 24 reduplicated as ll.25 - 29; p.140, l.28, ‘be’ battered; p.141, l.7, ‘t’ in ‘the’ chipped; p.190, l.30, ‘any’ for ‘an’; p.227, penultimate line, ‘L’ of ‘Lat’ chipped; p.249, l.20, first ‘o’ in ‘door’ battered; p.251, l.20, ‘a’ in ‘all’ battered; p.253, l.7, ‘e’ in ‘series’ chipped; p.255, l.7, ‘un’ in ‘unobserved’ chipped. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated.