$175
Estimate: $800 - $1,200
P.G. Wodehouse Collection of William Toplis
Auction: May 7, 2020 11:00:00 AM EDT
London: Adam & Charles Back, 1903. First reissue. 8vo. (xii), (282), (2) (ads) pp. Illustrated with frontispiece and 11 plates by T.M.R. Whitwell, R. Noel Pocock, and E.F. Skinner. Original pictorial red cloth-covered boards, spine faded, boards lightly soiled and rubbed, small bubbles to cloth on front board, stamped in gilt, black, and light blue; all edges trimmed; offsetting to endpapers, scattered minor spotting and soiling to text, hinges worn at front and rear paste-down, as well as at pp. 144-145, 160-161, and 208-209, old ownership inscription on front free endpaper. McIlvaine A3a2.
Wodehouse's third novel.