The Coldstone - Patricia Wentworth (psued. Dora Amy Elles) 1930 - J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia - First American Edition A superb example of the first edition in the striking dust jacket. Together with loose publisher’s ‘Dear Reader...’ postage paid survey slip.

‘When young Anthony Colstone inherits Stonegate from his grandfather’s cousin, he hardly expects to be haunted by death’.
  Published the same year by Hodder and Stoughton, London. According to Cooper & Pike it is possible the British Edition may not be the true first.

Dora Amy Elles (1877-1961) was a prolific British author who wrote under the pseudonym Patricia Wentworth.

References: Reilly, ’
Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers’ (1980), 1460. Cooper & Pike, ‘Detective Fiction’, 309.

Octavo (book size 19.8x13.5cm), pp. 308. In publisher’s yellow cloth, spine and front panel lettered in purple, top edge tinted purple, all edges trimmed. Dust jacket priced ‘$2.00’ to upper corner of front flap, all flaps with publisher’s decorative trim to corners, and a 2mm thin line of colour touch up to a crease at the head of the spine.
  Condition: Very good, some spotting to foredge, more gently so to outer edges of some pages, rear inner hinge cracked, in fine dust jacket but for completely unnecessary 2mm thin line of colour touch up to a crease at the head of the spine.   Ref: 110807   Price: HK$ 3,000