$500
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500
P.G. Wodehouse Collection of William Toplis
Auction: May 7, 2020 11:00:00 AM EDT
London: Adam & Charles Black, 1907. First edition, first issue. 8vo. 284 pp. Illustrated with frontispiece and 11 plates by W. Townend. Original tan pictorial cloth-covered boards, slightly cocked, moderately worn and rubbed, front board slightly affected by damp, stamped in gilt, black, and white; all edges trimmed, foxed; lacking half-title, later front free endpaper, foxing and dampstaining to endpapers, foxing to title-page, moderate to heavy foxing to text, chipping at upper edge of pp. 157-160; joint starting at pp. 32-33 and 80-81, ownership signature on front paste-down and recto of frontispiece, dampstaining to bottom corner of all plates; in blue linen-covered fall-down-back box. McIlvaine A8a.
A scarce early Wodehouse title. First serialized in the boy's magazine "The Captain" between October 1905 and March 1906.