7th May, 2020 10:00 EDT
P.G. Wodehouse Collection of William Toplis
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Wodehouse, P.G., and Seymour Hicks and Arthur Wimperis and Guy Jones and C.H. Bovill
The Gay Gordons
London, 1907. 4to. (4), 112 pp. Vocal score. Presentation binding? Contemporary limp red leather, stamped in gold; original photographic stiff front wrapper bound in; Seymour Hicks’s signature rubber-stamped on title-page. In a green fall-down-back box. Together with: 1. The Gay Gordons Program from the original production at the Aldwych Theatre, annotated in ink, “Sep 26-07 16th Performance) 2. The Play No place, no date (ca. 1907). Issue devoted to The Gay Gordons (No. 63, Vol 10). 3. Hicks, Betty A Comic Souvenir of the Gay Gordons Printed in London, no date, (ca. 1908). Title leaf plus 16 numbered leaves with either illustrations by W. Barton Wilkinson or photographs, all enclosed in an orange printed envelope.
Sold for $125
Estimated at $400 - $600
London, 1907. 4to. (4), 112 pp. Vocal score. Presentation binding? Contemporary limp red leather, stamped in gold; original photographic stiff front wrapper bound in; Seymour Hicks’s signature rubber-stamped on title-page. In a green fall-down-back box. Together with: 1. The Gay Gordons Program from the original production at the Aldwych Theatre, annotated in ink, “Sep 26-07 16th Performance) 2. The Play No place, no date (ca. 1907). Issue devoted to The Gay Gordons (No. 63, Vol 10). 3. Hicks, Betty A Comic Souvenir of the Gay Gordons Printed in London, no date, (ca. 1908). Title leaf plus 16 numbered leaves with either illustrations by W. Barton Wilkinson or photographs, all enclosed in an orange printed envelope.
