$750
Estimate: $400 - $600
P.G. Wodehouse Collection of William Toplis
Auction: May 7, 2020 11:00:00 AM EDT
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1916. First edition, first issue. 8vo. (326), (2) pp. Inscribed by Wodehouse to his bibliographer and biographer David A. Jasen on first free endpaper: "To/David/from/Plum." Illustrated with frontispiece and seven plates by Clarence F. Underwood. Original light red cloth-covered boards, spine faded, light wear to spine ends, slightly cocked, small puncture on front joint; all edges trimmed; hinge slightly worn at pp. 88-89; lacking dust-jacket. McIlvaine A19a. Together with: Uneasy Money New York: The Macauley Company, (1920). Third reissue. 8vo. (vi), (326), (4) (ads) pp. Original gray cloth-covered boards, scattered spotting, spine and extremities darkened, stamped in red; in original illustrated dust-jacket, soiled and worn, chipping to extremities and folds. McIlvaine A19a4.
Precedes the English edition by seven months.