$300
Estimate: $200 - $300
P.G. Wodehouse Collection of William Toplis
Auction: May 7, 2020 11:00:00 AM EDT
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., (1925). First edition, first issue. 8vo. viii, 248, 8 (ads) pp. Inscribed by Wodehouse to his bibliographer and biographer David A. Jasen on front free endpaper: "To David/from Plum/P.G. Wodehouse/April 14, 1964." Original red cloth-covered boards, front board edge slightly affected by damp, stamped in black; all edges trimmed; offsetting to endpapers, pencil anontation on p. 65, upper hinge slighty worn at pp. 104-105; lacking dust-jacket. McIlvaine A35a. Together with: Sam the Sudden London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., (1939). 11th reissue (Methuen's Sixpennies). 12mo. (256) pp. Original limp wrappers, worn. McIlvaine A35a12.
Includes the recurring character Lord Tilbury, publishing magnate and founder of Mammoth Publishing. He appeared the previous year in "Bill the Conquerer" (1924), and would go on to make a cameo at Blandings Castle in "Heavy Weather" (1933).