$850
Estimate: $800 - $1,200
P.G. Wodehouse Collection of William Toplis
Auction: May 7, 2020 11:00:00 AM EDT
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, (1918). First English edition, first issue. 8vo. (iv), 316 pp. Original mustard-yellow cloth, lightly soiled, with minor wear to spine ends, stamped in black and in blind; all edges trimmed; pencil erasure from old ownership signature on front free endpaper, faint abrasion to text at bottom of p. 8, two small chips and one short closed tear at top edge of pp. 91-126, hinge worn at pp. 192-193, light stain in gutter of pp. 294-295, scattered minor soiling to text; in black cloth-covered fall-down-back box. McIlvaine A20b.
The first Wodehouse novel published by Herbert Jenkins.