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The Cecil Aldin Book.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, no date [1932]. [Illustrated Miscellany] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.193; [1]. With eight plates in colour, seven half-tone plates, and 95 black and white drawings. Publisher's oatmeal cloth with orange title labels to spine and upper board. Quite heavy spotting to first and..... More
The Play's the Thing.
New York, NY: Brentano's, 1927. [Hungarian Drama] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 139 [1]. Publisher's brown cloth with titles blocked with designs in blue and green to spine and upper board. Fore-edge untrimmed. With the green dust-jacket titled in a darker green. Lightly browned throughout. Dust-jacket..... More
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"Q.Q." Detective Stories [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 68 and 69, numbers 405 to 408, and 412 to 413.
London: George Newnes, September 1924 to May 1925. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Six parts in their original colour illustrated paper covers. Octavo (25 x 17cm). Presented in a navy blue quarter morocco clamshell box, with gilt titles to spine, raised bands and a fleece lining. Wear and small losses to..... More
The Strand Magazine: My Sword For Lafayette, The Lost Bowlers, etc.
London: George Newnes, March-November 1905. Nine magazines, in clamshell box (29 x 20 x 13cm). Small tear to the rear cover of the June issue, else a particularly clean set. Very good. This run includes the complete serial of Pemberton's historical novel plus stand-alone stories by Richard Marsh, P.G.Wodehouse and..... More
![Sergeant Sir Peter's Cases [and] Jeeves and the Spot of Art [and] Jeeves and the Kid Clementia...](/pictures/thumb/51463.jpg?v=1535556522)
Sergeant Sir Peter's Cases [and] Jeeves and the Spot of Art [and] Jeeves and the Kid Clementia [and] Jeeves and the Old School Chum [and] Indian Summer of an Uncle [and] Tuppy Changes His Mind [and] Gala Night [in] The Strand Magazine.
London: George Newnes, December 1929 to June 1930. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Seven parts in their original colour illustrated paper covers. Octavo (25 x 17cm). Presented in a quarter black morocco clamshell box, with gilt titles to spine, raised bands and a fleece lining. Some rubbing and small losses to..... More
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The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire [and] The Exit of Battling Billson [in] The Strand Magazine. Volume LXVII.
London: George Newnes, January 1924. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Octavo magazine (25 x 17cm), pp.48; 106; 49-62. With black and white illustrations throughout. Publisher's colour printed wrappers. Presented in a light blue 'Strand Magazine' slipcase. Some tears to front cover and first leaf. Heavy rubbing to edges, with loss to..... More
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Three of Them [and] Jeeves and the Chump Cyril [and] The Film that was Never Shown [and] The Magic Plus Fours [and] Billy Bones [and] The Forbidden Subject [and] First Aid for Dora [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 55, 56, 64, and 66; numbers 328, 331, 332, 366, 384 and 392.
London: George Newnes, April, July, August, and December 1918, December 1922, and August 1923. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Six magazines. Octavo (27 x 19cm), pp.44; 265-344; 45-52; pp.20; 76; 21-32; pp.16; 77-152; 17-34; pp.64; 361-484; 65-82; pp.84; 487-628; 85-118; pp.48; 105-212; 49-64. Liberally illustrated in black and white throughout. Publisher's..... More
![The Uncharted Coast [and] The Idol's Eye [and] The Spring Frock [and] "The Uncrowned King of...](/pictures/thumb/57800.jpg?v=1599843607)
The Uncharted Coast [and] The Idol's Eye [and] The Spring Frock [and] "The Uncrowned King of Arabia"—Colonel T.E. Lawrence [and] "Good Hunting, Old Chap!" [and] Dear Old Squiffy [and] A Room at the Hermitage [and] "Mother's Knee" [and] The Coming of Gowf [and] When Greek Meets Greek [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 58, 59, 60, and 61; numbers 348, 349, 353, 357, 359, and 365.
London: George Newnes, December 1919 to May 1921. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Six octavo magazines (28 x 19cm), pp.[104] 501-664 [105-124]; pp.[48] 102 [49-66]; pp.[52] 405-504 [53-80]; pp.[48] 185-276 [49-84]; pp.[52] 369-460 [53-84]; pp.[52] 371-464 [53-70]. With frequent in-text illustrations. Publisher's pale blue paper covers titled in dark blue and..... More
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Punchard's Agency [and] Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest [and] The British Campaign in France [and] Uneasy Money [and] The Man-Trap [in] The Strand Magazine. Volume 53, numbers 315, 316 and 317
London: George Newnes, March to May 1917. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Three magazines. Octavo (27 x 19cm), pp.50; 209-312; 51-58; pp.50; 313-416; 51-58; pp.40; 417-512; 41-48. Liberally illustrated in black and white throughout. Publisher's blue paper covers, titled in red and navy, and priced at 7d. Presented in a navy..... More
Rugger Stories. One the Playing of Football; Scotland Take the Shock; "Rattle 'em Under"; Cock House Match at Haileybury; The Young Man's Game; The Wing Three-Quarter; T'Match; The Springboks Beaten; The Ripon Match; Past Development in Rugby Football; The Rugger Match; Mind Over Matter; The Best Game to Watch; Oxford v. All Blacks; The Great Scrummage; More by Luck—; Ronnie Poulton; R.W.P.P.; A Damn Fine Show; Bernard Darwin Sits Aloof; Behind the Posts; A Fragment of Life; A Famous Victory; A Football Player; Getting a Blue; "He'll Make a Player."
London: Putnam, 1932. [Rugby Short Stories] FIRST EDITION, first state binding. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 303 [1]. With the errata slip to contents page. Publisher's green cloth with orange titles to spine and upper. Spotting and toning to edges, endpapers and preliminaries. Tobacco-scented. Moderate wear to cloth; spine heavily..... More
The Swoop! Or, How Clarence Saved England.
London: Alston Rivers, 1909. [Satire/humour] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (17 x 12cm). Pp. 122; [6], advertisements. With illustrations. In an elegant vintage binding of quarter native red morocco over patterned paper covered sides, leather-tipped corners, gilt titles and decoration to spine, original colour-printed wraps bound in, marbled endpapers. A lovely fine..... More
Something New.
New York, NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1915. [Classic Humour] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[6]; 347; [3]. With four photogravure plates after F.R. Gruger, including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, green and gilt scarab devices to upper board. Textblock..... More
Plum Stones — The Hidden P.G. Wodehouse. Wodehouse, Detective Writer; Unrepublished Reggie Pepper; Theatrical Stories; Keggs, The Butler; First Impressions, Mature Reflections; There but for the Grace of God Goes Baxter; Self-Derivatives Par Excellence; Bertie's Friends; "In that Shape, Rotten"; Ethics and Eugenics; Wrykyn Havoc; First Drafts.
London: Galahad Books, 1993. [Humour and Satire] FINELY BOUND OMNIBUS LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[8] x; 51 [3]; xii; 61 [3]; x; 51 [3]; xii; 22 [2]; x; 41 [1]; x; 16 [2]; xii; 48; xii; 31 [1]; x; 30; x; 40 [2]; xii; 22 [2]; x; 32..... More
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Jeeves and the impending Doom [within] The London Omnibus. Introduction by Carl Van Doren.
New York, NY: Doubleday Doran and Company, Inc., 1932. [Classic Humour] FIRST ANTHOLOGY EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm). Publisher's pale green cloth blocked in dark green, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at $2.50. Jacket just a touch dusty and marginally sunned to spine else a particularly fine copy which appears to be..... More
Big Money.
New York, NY: George H. Doran Company, 1931. [Humour] FIRST US EDITION, early issue with 'Ganville' for 'Grenville' on copyright page, title appears to be a cancel, in 1932 [A.L. Burt] dust-wrapper. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[vi] 316. Publisher's orange cloth blocked in black, 'Doubleday Doran' imprint on spine, top..... More
Bill the Conqueror. His Invasion of England in the Springtime.
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925. [Humour] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.323; [1], blank. Publisher's yellow cloth, titled in green to spine and upper board, decorative border to upper board. Pictorial dust-jacket with a image McIlvaine believed to be drawn by May Wilson Preston, printed price..... More
Bill the Conqueror. His Invasion of England in the Springtime.
New York, NY: George H. Doran Company, 1924. [Classic Humour] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.323; [1]. Publisher's orange cloth with green titles to spine and upper board. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at $2. Old repair to rear hinge, textblock toned. Jacket toned with chips and closed..... More
Cocktail Time.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1958. FIRST EDITION. Crown octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.222, [2], advertisements. Elegantly hand-bound in half red oasis morocco over cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands. Generally clean within. Light bumping and a scratch. Near-fine. A classic Wodehouse comedy featuring the energetic and mischievous..... More
Cocktail Time.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1958. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION. Crown octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.222, [2], advertisements. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt. Contents clean, spine sunned. A near fine copy without jacket. A classic Wodehouse comedy featuring the energetic and mischievous old series character 'Uncle Fred'. McIlvaine A81a... More
The Code of the Woosters.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1938. [Jeeves and Wooster] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.312; [8 of advertisments]. Publisher's green cloth blocked in black to spine and boards, top edge tinted green, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Fenwick, priced 7'6 on spine. Some spotting to edges, top edge tint not faded, faint thumb marks..... More
The Code of the Woosters.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1938. [Jeeves and Wooster] FIRST EDITION. Octavo(19 x 13cm), pp.312; [8], advertisments. Publisher's green cloth blocked in black to spine and boards, top edge tinted green, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Fenwick, priced 7/6 on spine. Bookblock and covers clean, jacket with several chips and tears, some..... More
Do Butlers Burgle Banks?
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1968. [Humour] FIRST EDITION INSCRIBED BY ETHEL WODEHOUSE. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp. 189; [3] blank. Publisher's green cloth titled in silver to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Osbert Lancaster, priced at 21s. Inscribed by Ethel Wodehouse to flyleaf. Spotting to edges, a few corners folded to..... More
Eggs, Beans and Crumpets.
New York, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1940. [Classic Humour] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[8] 312. Publisher's green cloth with blue titles and illustration to spine. Top edge yellow, others untrimmed. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket. Endpapers browned. Some spotting to cloth. Jacket sunned and rubbed to spine..... More
Enter Psmith.
New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, no date [1935]. [Classic Humour] FIRST US EDITION. Using the British sheets. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.viii; 247; [1]. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Anderson. Reading lean, textblock browned. Jacket with some rubbing to edges, and chips..... More
Full Moon.
London: Herbert Jenkins, n.d. [1947]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.252. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine and upper, in pictorial dust-jacket. No inscriptions. Jacket edgeworn with some chips and creased tears. Very good nonetheless. "The thought of being cooped up in Blandings Castle with Clarence, the Earl of Emsworth..... More