Stated First Edition. Binding is hardcover. Pages are tight and clean. No structural damage to binding or hinges. There is light shelfwear and rubbing to the boards. Library discard with usual attachments and marks. The DJ is protected with mylar and not clipped. Pocket removed. 288 pages. HardCover Binding. Year: 1976. ISBN: 0393087514. The third volume of the quintet ""A Staircase in Surrey."" Duncan Pattullo, in middle age, returns to his college at 'Oxford to take up a fellowship. He finds the provost, Dr. Pococke, much concerned to secure a huge benefaction from a charitable trust likely to be influenced by the aged and often outrageous former member Cedric Mumford.
