7th May, 2020 10:00 EDT
P.G. Wodehouse Collection of William Toplis
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Wodehouse, P.G.
The Great Sermon Handicap
London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1933). First edition. 32mo. (64) pp. Original red faux-leather-covered boards, wear to extremities and corners, stamped in gilt; marbled endpapers; in original illustrated dust-jacket, chipping to spine ends and corners, light edge wear; in red linen-covered fall-down-back box. McIlvaine A49a. Together with: Wodehouse, P.G. The Great Sermon Handicap New York: James H. Heineman, Inc., 1982. First edition thus, unnumbered of 500 copies. 8vo. Signed once and inscribed two times by illustrator William Hewison, with his note on title-page indicating, "This edition was destroyed on instructions of James Heineman, New York, because it has '17 faults or deficiences in it.' It would appear that there are now only three copies of this edition--this and two others. W.H." Original limp red wrappers, spine and rear edges faded.
Originally published in the June 1922 issue of the Strand Magazine, and later that same month in Cosmopolitan. It was later featured in the 1940 edition of "The Inimitable Jeeves."
Sold for $1,000
Estimated at $500 - $800
London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1933). First edition. 32mo. (64) pp. Original red faux-leather-covered boards, wear to extremities and corners, stamped in gilt; marbled endpapers; in original illustrated dust-jacket, chipping to spine ends and corners, light edge wear; in red linen-covered fall-down-back box. McIlvaine A49a. Together with: Wodehouse, P.G. The Great Sermon Handicap New York: James H. Heineman, Inc., 1982. First edition thus, unnumbered of 500 copies. 8vo. Signed once and inscribed two times by illustrator William Hewison, with his note on title-page indicating, "This edition was destroyed on instructions of James Heineman, New York, because it has '17 faults or deficiences in it.' It would appear that there are now only three copies of this edition--this and two others. W.H." Original limp red wrappers, spine and rear edges faded.
Originally published in the June 1922 issue of the Strand Magazine, and later that same month in Cosmopolitan. It was later featured in the 1940 edition of "The Inimitable Jeeves."
