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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
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
Piccadilly Jim.
New York, NY: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1917. [Classic Humour] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[12]; 363; [3]. With eight dichromatic plates by Preston, including a frontispiece. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine and upper board. With a promotional photograph of Madge Evans and Robert Montgomery in... 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
Bachelors Anonymous.
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1974. [Classic Humour] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[2]; 186; [4]. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine and a silver illustration to upper board. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Osbert Lancaster. Spotting to edges; some light bruising to jacket edges... 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.
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.
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
The Brinkmanship of Galahad Threepwood. A Blandings Castle Novel.
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1964. [Classic Humour] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.223 [1]. Publisher's yellow quarter cloth with blue titles to spine and orange paper over boards with a blue illustration to upper. Top edge yellow. With the dust-jacket illustrated by John Alcorn. Light spotting... 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(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
contributes to...'Twenty Five Cricket Stories'. i) Tom, Dick and Harry, ii) The Wire-Pullers, iii) The Lost Bowlers and iv) How Pillingshoot Scored.
George Newnes Ltd., London, n.d. [1909]. FIRST (AND ONLY) EDITION, possibly withdrawn. Contains four Wodehouse stories, three of which are published for the first time in book form (How Pillingshoot Scored had already appeared in Tales of St.Austins, 1903). These Newnes-period Wodehouse stories were collected in this particularly scarce omnibus... More
Do Butlers Burgle Banks?
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1968. [Classic Humour] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.191; [1]. Publisher's quarter blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, and yellow paper over boards. Top edge blue. With the dust-jacket illustrated by John Alcorn, priced at $4.50. A few marks to edges, remainder... 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