London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, (1940). First edition, Advance Review Copy issued before publication date of April 26, 1940. 8vo. 284 pp. Original orange cloth-covered boards, lettered in black, spine ends lightly faded, offsetting to endpapers, book-plate of James H. Heineman to front paste-down, pencil note to front free endpaper; Advance Review Copy slip tipped in at title page, pencil notes to contents page, a few faint pencil notes throughout, not affecting text; in the original pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Fenwick with 7/6 price on spine, list of 17 Wodehouse titles on front flap beginning with "Hot Water" and ending with "Eggs, Beans and Crumpets", 22 titles on rear flap beginning with "Piccadilly Jim" and ending with "If I Were You", extremities worn and with a few chips, affecting the "E" in Wodehouse on front panel and "Eggs" on the spine panel, lightly soiled; Advance Review Copy slip tipped to front panel. McIlvaine A62a.

This advance review copy was issued to a select group of readers before the book's official publication. The Advance Review Copy slip notes to readers: "This book will be published on 26 April 1940. Will you, therefore, be so kind as to see that no notice appears before that date."