$1,500
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000
P.G. Wodehouse Collection of William Toplis
Auction: May 7, 2020 11:00:00 AM EDT
London: Adam & Charles Black, 1902. First edition, first issue. 8vo. 272 pp. Contemporary signature by Wodehouse on front free endpaper. Illustrated with frontispiece and nine plates by Ralph Noel Pocock. Original blue cloth-covered boards, stamped in silver with cup design on front board and spine, spine and gilt slightly faded, spine ends moderately worn, spotting to front and rear boards; light offsetting to free endpapers, scattered spotting to text, small closed tear at bottom gutter of pp. 33/34, rear joint worn. McIlvaine A1a.
Rare, signed copy of Wodehouse's first book.