7th May, 2020 10:00 EDT
P.G. Wodehouse Collection of William Toplis
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Wodehouse, P.G.
The Clicking of Cuthbert
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1922. First edition, first issue. 8vo. 256 pp. Original sage green pictorial cloth-covered boards, cocked, stamped in dark green; all edges trimmed; lacking pp. 169/170, bookseller's ticket on front free endpaper, light offsetting to endpapers, foxing to text block edges; in rare original illustrated dust-jacket, spine and flaps reinforced on verso, scattered soiling, creasing to bottom portion of front panel and spine, very light dampstaining to upper corner of front panel; in black linen-covered fall-down-back box. McIlvaine A27a.
Collection of ten golf-themed short stories, featuring the first appearence of Wodehouse's recurring character "The Oldest Member."
Sold for $688
Estimated at $800 - $1,200
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1922. First edition, first issue. 8vo. 256 pp. Original sage green pictorial cloth-covered boards, cocked, stamped in dark green; all edges trimmed; lacking pp. 169/170, bookseller's ticket on front free endpaper, light offsetting to endpapers, foxing to text block edges; in rare original illustrated dust-jacket, spine and flaps reinforced on verso, scattered soiling, creasing to bottom portion of front panel and spine, very light dampstaining to upper corner of front panel; in black linen-covered fall-down-back box. McIlvaine A27a.
Collection of ten golf-themed short stories, featuring the first appearence of Wodehouse's recurring character "The Oldest Member."
