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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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The Man Who Disliked Cats. [An extract from The Strand Magazine].
London: George Newnes, May 1912. [Magazine Extract] FIRST APPEARANCE. Octavo pamphlet (23 x 16cm), pp.507-515 [1]. With in-text illustrations by Simpson. Leaves removed from a copy of The Strand Magazine and bound recently in brown paper, with a plain printed title label to upper, stapled twice. Fine. The first appearance..... 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
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
Full Moon.
London: Herbert Jenkins, no date [1947]. [Comedy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.252. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine and upper. Contents clean, neat ink note to flyleaf, covers lightly handled A very good copy without jacket. "The thought of being cooped up in Blandings Castle with..... More
The Gold Bat.
London: A and C Black, 1904. FIRST EDITION, earliest issue with two pages of terminal advertisements, but without the 8-page advertisement catalogue. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.277, with eight plates illustrated by Whitwell. Publisher's polychrome binding of dark red cloth with pictorial upper and spine, titled in gilt. Moderate spotting..... More
The Great Sermon Handicap.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1933]. [Jeeves and Wooster Short Story] FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Very small octavo (12 x 8cm), pp.64. Publisher's red leatherette with gilt titles to upper and machine-marbled endpapers. Crisp and clean internally, with some rubbing to outer edges and a chip from tail of spine..... More
Ice in the Bedroom.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1961. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION, primary binding. Crown octavo, (19 x 13cm), pp.223; [1], advertisement. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine in variant pictorial dust-wrapper lettered only in white to both spine and upper (some are lettered in white and yellow). Dust-wrapper price-clipped, with a...... More
Ice in the Bedroom.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1961. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION, primary binding. Crown octavo, (19 x 13cm), pp.223; [1], advertisement. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine in pictorial dust-jacket lettered in yellow and white to both spine and upper. Spotting and browning to edges. Light spotting to preliminaries. Price-clipped jacket..... More
If I Were You.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1931. [Humour] FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), [6]; 305; [1]. Publisher's orange cloth titled in dark red to spine and upper board, first issue pictorial dust-jacket drawn by Henrietta Starrett and priced at $2.00. Top edge tinted yellow, fore edge..... More
If I Were You.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1931. [Humour] FIRST EDITION. This edition preceding the UK publication. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[vi]; 305; [I] blank. Publisher's orange cloth titled in brown to spine and upper board, pictorial dust-jacket drawn by Henrietta Starrett, with printed price of $2.00. Endpapers lightly..... More
Laughing Gas.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1936. [Comic novel] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[vi]; 303; [3] blank. Publisher's orange cloth titled in black to spine, with black illustration to spine and upper board, top-edge dark orange. Pictorial dust jacket priced at $2.00. Toning to endpapers..... More
Love Among The Chickens.
London: George Newnes, 1906. [Humour] FIRST EDITION. A significant ASSOCIATION COPY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.x; 312. Complete with four full-page black and white plates by H.M Brock [the frontispiece is positioned within the text, following binder's instructions]. Publisher's stone-coloured cloth, pictorially blocked in green, black and orange. With a...... More
The Luck of the Bodkins.
Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Company, 1936. [Humour] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[4]; 298. Publisher's green cloth, titled and decorated in black to spine and upper board, pictorial dust-jacket priced at $2.00. Top edge dusty else very good in similar dust-wrapper, rubbed to extremities and with an..... More
The Man With Two Left Feet.
New York, NY: A.L. Burt Company, 1933. [Humour] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.283; [1], blank. Publisher's orange cloth, with black titles and decoration, top edge tinted orange, pictorial jacket by Harry Beckhoff. Contents clean, cloth fresh. A lovely fine copy in a very slightly used jacket... More