"A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1953. [Boys' adventure story] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.189; [1], blank; [2], advertisements. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black, in pictorial dust-wrapper. No inscriptions, contents clean. A fine copy of the book in a lovely fine jacket with minor dustiness to rear panel, price clipped. A particularly fresh example. One of Wodehouse's earliest novels, 'Mike' (1909), was largely forgotten until much later in his career, when it was revised and republished on both sides of the Atlantic as 'Mike at Wrykyn. This is the first British edition of this title. Uncommon. Item #65438
McIlvaine A12e. Ex-Peter Harrington, with their book slip tucked in.
Price: £350.00
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