7th May, 2020 10:00 EDT
P.G. Wodehouse Collection of William Toplis
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Wodehouse, P.G.
The Intrusion of Jimmy
New York: W.J. Watt & Company, (1910). First edition, first issue. 8vo. (vi), 314 pp. Inscribed by Wodehouse to his mother, one month after publication, on front free endpaper: "To Ma/with love from/Plum/June 1910," with a small drawing of a stick figure by him next to date. Illustrated with frontispiece and four plates. Original pictorial black cloth-covered boards, rubbed, spine faded, stamped in gilt, in blind, olive-green, yellow, with round illustrated paper onlay on front board; all edges trimmed; bottom portion of front free endaper excised, with remnants of erased Wodehouse signature and inscription on remaining upper portion, scattered spotting to text, printer's error on p. 282; in black cloth-covered fall-down-back box. McIlvaine A13a.
Precedes the English edition "A Gentleman of Leisure" by six months.
Sold for $1,188
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500
New York: W.J. Watt & Company, (1910). First edition, first issue. 8vo. (vi), 314 pp. Inscribed by Wodehouse to his mother, one month after publication, on front free endpaper: "To Ma/with love from/Plum/June 1910," with a small drawing of a stick figure by him next to date. Illustrated with frontispiece and four plates. Original pictorial black cloth-covered boards, rubbed, spine faded, stamped in gilt, in blind, olive-green, yellow, with round illustrated paper onlay on front board; all edges trimmed; bottom portion of front free endaper excised, with remnants of erased Wodehouse signature and inscription on remaining upper portion, scattered spotting to text, printer's error on p. 282; in black cloth-covered fall-down-back box. McIlvaine A13a.
Precedes the English edition "A Gentleman of Leisure" by six months.
