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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
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The Land of Mist [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 70 and 71, numbers 415 to 423.
London: George Newnes, July 1925 to March 1926. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Nine parts in their original colour illustrated paper covers. Octavo (25 x 17cm). Presented in a quarter navy blue morocco clamshell box, with gilt titles to spine, raised bands and a fleece lining. Wear, rubbing and small losses..... 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
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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
Sunset at Blandings.
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1977. [Classic Humour] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[6]; 216; [2]. With occasional small illustrations and maps by Ionicus. Orange endpapers. Publisher's brown mottled cloth with white titles to spine and a white illustration to the upper board. With the dust-jacket illustrated..... More
Bachelors Anonymous.
London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1973. [Classic Humour] FIRST EDITION. Crown octavo (19 x 13cm). Pp.191; [1], blank. Publisher's green cloth titled in gilt to spine in an amusing pictorial dust-jacket designed by Osbert Lancaster. Edges dusty/toned. A very good copy in a fine wrapper with usual laminate shrinkage. More
Lord Emsworth And Others.
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1937. [Humour] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, (19 x 13cm), pp.312; [8], advertisements and reviews. Red half morocco over original red cloth sides titled in black, gilt-lettered to spine, raised bands. Contents clean, covers a little marked. A near fine copy in an attractive recent binding. Wodehouse comedy..... More
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Psmith, Journalist [In] The Captain: A Magazine for Boys and "Old Boys" Vol. XXII.
London: George Newnes, Limited, 1909-1910. [Periodical] FIRST APPEARANCE OF PSMITH, JOURNALIST. Quarto (24 x 19cm), pp.iv; 576. Publisher's red cloth, blocked in black, gilt, red and white to spine and upper, edges speckled red. Very slight toning to the textblock, more so to the margins, some browning to endpapers, textblock..... More
Sunset at Blandings.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1977. [Classic humour] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp. 213; [3], blank. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt, in a pictorial dust-jacket designed by Ionicus, priced at. Splashmark to top edge otherwise fine in jacket. Wodehouse's final unfinished novel, with an extensive appendix based on..... More
Methuen's Library of Humour: P.G. Wodehouse.
London: Methuen and Co., 1934. [Humour Anthology] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.vi; 153 [1]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind stamp to upper board. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 2/6. Some dustiness top top edge. Marginally short jacket toned to spine with..... More
Bring on the Girls! The Improbable Story of Our Life in Musical Comedy, with Pictures to Prove It.
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1953. [Biography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[24] 278 [2]. With a section of black and white photographs preceding the main text. Inscribed "To Lawrence and Armina, | with fond greetings | from | Guy, | To which is added | a...... More
Bring on the Girls! The Improbable Story of Our Life in Musical Comedy, with Pictures to Prove It.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1954. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.244. With sixteen pages of monochrome photographs. Publisher's cloth in photographic dust-wrapper. A very good copy in similar price-clipped wrapper with a few chips along top edge. More
The Prince and Betty.
New York, NY: W.J. Watt and Company, 1912. [Classic Humour] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[8]; 300. With occasional lithographic plates including a frontispiece, as well as an illustrated vignette title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, with two chromolithographic roundels laid..... 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
The Uncollected Wodehouse.
New York, NY: a Continuum Book, the Seabury Press, 1976. [Classic Humour] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xiv; 212; [2]. Publisher's blue cloth, silver titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Donya Melanson Associates with printed price of $8.95. Cloth lightly handled, some toning and rubbing to wrapper edges. Near..... 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
Mike.
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1909. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.ix; [3]; 339; [1]. Publisher's pictorial green cloth. With 12 full page plates by Whitwell. With a clipped early Wodehouse signature loosely inserted. Endpapers slightly browned. Five of the plates have minimal paper restoration to margins. Text-block is good and bright..... More
The Adventures of Sally.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1923. FIRST EDITION. Crown octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.312, [8], advertisements, this issue/printing with 12 books list on back of half-title. Elegantly hand-bound in half deep red oasis morocco over original pictorial cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands. Some occasional foxing, exterior is..... More
Autograph Letter, Signed. With Signed photograph.
New York, 1973. Typed letter from author P.G.Wodehouse at his Long Island, NY, home, February 1973, to a fan in Glasgow, Scotland. The author mentions a new book that he is writing, to be finished in the spring, which is most likely 'Batchelors Anonymous' which was published in October. Elegantly..... More
Bertie Wooster Sees It Through.
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1955. [Jeeves and Wooster] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[8]; 246; [2]. Publisher's quarter cloth with gilt titles to brown blocking on spine, and light blue paper over boards, top edge brown. Wraparound pictorial dust-jacket designed by Dick Dodge, priced at $3.50..... 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.
London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1950. [Modern fiction] ATTRACTIVE REPRINT. sEVENTEENTH EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[viii]; 312; [I], blank. Publisher's orange cloth in pictorial dust-jacket, title in black on spine, dust-jacket designed by Frank Marston, priced at 6/- Net. Internally clean, minor staining to edges of textblock, a little..... 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