$2,200
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000
P.G. Wodehouse Collection of William Toplis
Auction: May 7, 2020 11:00:00 AM EDT
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1915. First English edition, first issue. 8vo. 315, (1), (4), 31 (ads) pp. Original blue-green cloth-covered boards, cocked, spine faded, bottom front corner bumped, very small nick on rear joint; all edges trimmed; book-plate on front paste-down, offsetting to endpapers, spotting to prelims, bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown; in red linen-covered fall-down-back box. McIlvaine A18b.
Scarce first printing of the first novel in the Blandings Castle saga.