$700
Estimate: $500 - $800
P.G. Wodehouse Collection of William Toplis
Auction: May 7, 2020 11:00:00 AM EDT
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1930. First edition, first printing. 8vo. 340 pp. Signed and inscribed by Wodehouse to MGM Studios executive Samuel Marx: "To/Sam Marx/with best wishes from/the author/P.G. Wodehouse/Nov 24. 1930". Publisher's orange cloth, lettered in black; dust-jacket wanting. McIlvaine A42a.
Samuel Marx (1902-1992) was an American film producer and screenwriting executive at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios. He supervised several prominent literary figures during their screenwriting careers, including P.G. Wodehouse.