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Published by Simon & Schuster, 1955
Seller: Atlantic Books, Mars Hill, NC, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. no jacket. Hard cover stated first American edition. No jacket. Light green boards, tan spine. Binding, hinges tight, text clean and unmarked. Boards show light wear along edges, small scuff on front, smudges on back. NOT ex-library. Grade of used, "acceptable", but maybe a hair better. Shelf W.
First Popular Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 314p. ; 19cm. Notes: Suggested date of publication. Subjects: English fiction. 1 Kg.
First Popular Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 314p. ; 19cm. Notes: Suggested date of publication. Subjects: English fiction. 1 Kg.
Published by Herbert Jenkins, 1922
Seller: The Swift Bookstore, Peterlee, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1922, presumed 1/1. Has 8 previous titles listed on verso of half-title page. No D/J. Boards bumped to edges, crease to back & ink spot to front (hence only 'Acceptable'). The lightly tanned pages are clean & inscription/annotation free, although occasional usage crease/mark & spot of foxing. If you have any queries please contact us. We endeavour to send orders as quickly as possible & in most cases are sent by first available post 6 days a week. (1,1-310).
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine+. First American Edition. First Printing, with the dates 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, and 1927; the Doran colophon; and "Divotsâ"Bâ"Printed in the United States of America" on the copyright page. 8vo: x,[4],15-316pp. Publisher's orange cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in black and stamped with vignette of two golfers, pictorial end papers, top edge stained brown, fore-edge untrimmed. Near Fine or better, the cloth and end papers lightly soiled, with neat inscriptions on front fly-leaf. Lovely copy. Jasen 37a. Collection of golf stories, published in the United Kingdom as "The Heart of a Goof," including: "The Heart of a Goof," "High Stakes," "The Magic Plus Fours," and "Jane Gets off the Fairway". Note: With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Published by Herbert Jenkins, London, 1960
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine-. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine-. First Edition. Second issue, with half-title corrected. Small 8vo: 205,[1]pp. Publisher's butterscotch cloth, spine lettered in black, illustrated dust jacket. Square, tight, unread copy with fresh, bright pages in about Fine price-clipped jacket, very lightly rubbed to head of spine panel. Jasen 82a. "The eighth Jeeves novel, harking back to 'Jeeves and the Yuletide Spirit.' Bobbie Wickham and the 18th Century Cow-creamer of Uncle Tom's is also a dominant theme." (Jasen) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Impression. First Impression ("First published . . . 1963), in a variant sky-blue binding, spine stamped in black. Small 8vo: 189,[1]pp. Fine, square and tight, in a Fine first issue (list of 32 Autograph Edition titles on the back panel, beginning with "Hot Water" and ending with "Ukridge") price-clipped dust jacket. Mcilvaine A86b. Preceded by the U.S., published earlier the same year. The ninth Jeeves novel, sequel to Code of the Woosters (1938). Note: With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Published by London: Herbert Jenkins, 1969, 1969
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
[Classic Humour] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.222; [2]. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine, in an amusing pictorial dust-jacket designed by Osbert Lancaster, with printed price 25s. A few light marks within, else internally bright and clean. Slight toning to top edge. Light creasing to dust-jacket. A near fine copy. The tenth 'Blandings Castle' novel.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine+. First Edition. Fourth Printing (first published 1939) of the fifth Blandings Castle novel and the first to star Uncle Fred. . Small 8vo: 311,[1]pp. Publisher's bright orange cloth stamped in black; pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Fenwick. Fine (probably unread), bright, tight and square, with slightly dust-soiled top edge; better than Near Fine jacket with slight edge wear and one very short closed tear. Jasen 60a (for first impression). N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
Published by London: Herbert Jenkins, 1969, 1969
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
[Classic Humour] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.222; [2]. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine, in an amusing pictorial dust-jacket designed by Osbert Lancaster, with printed price 25s. Simply a fine, fresh copy. Fine. The tenth 'Blandings Castle' novel. Formerly sold by Wodehouse specialist Nigel Williams, with his pencil note and previous price to f.e.p.
Published by and 1993, 1992
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
All items in good condition, with minor signs of age. The drafts are both printed on yellow paper. Each is 4pp., 4to. The two appear the same textually, but one has two slips of paper with amended text attached, and the autograph emendations to the two are different from one another. Also present is a leaf from 'Lifewise' magazine, November 1993, with one page carrying Pitt's memoir, accompanied by a photograph of Wodehouse being interviewed at Tost by Angus Thuermer. The piece begins: 'I first saw P. G. Wodehouse from behind the barred window of a prison cell in Upper Silesia, and was not at that moment particularly interested in who he might be.' The interment camp is 'Ilag VIII b, Tost', and Pitt recalls his conversations with Wodehouse ('Oh, Lord. Time to feed. Wonder what colour gravy they've boiled the old socks in today?'), and Wodehouse's advice regarding a short stoy by Pitt and its possible publication ('I wrote Latin hexameters at Dulwich: very useful when it comes to writing lyrics. Cole Porter and I always tried 'em out in Latin first. Showed up the flat spots immediately!'). Pitt is also alowed to 'look through the first chapters of Money in the Bank', which he discusses with Wodehouse. Towards the end he writes: 'I have no idea of the date, but the time came when I watched him being escorted down the staircase by a somewhat sinister character and by Sonderfuhrer Heide and two German guards, and the next thing I knew was that he had been released and was living in Berlin.' Together with the drafts and magazine version of the article, there are also typewritten copies of two letters from Pitt. The first, to Bernard Kaukas of the Savage Club, 2 April 1992, enquires whether Wodehouse was a member of the Club. The second, to Diana Shine of the Society of Authors, 21 March 1992, offers the article for publication in the Society's magazine 'The Author'. The collection also includes a TLS to Pitt from Derek Parker, editor of 'The Author', 27 March 1992, explaining the reasons for declining the piece. Also present is a photocopy of the article as printed in the journal of the Wodehouse Society, 'Plum Lines', Summer 1995.
Published by London: Herbert Jenkins, No date [1948], 1948
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
[Classic Humour] FIRST UK EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp. 256. Publisher's orange cloth lettered in black to front board and spine, humorous illustrative dust-jacket with printed price of 8/6 to front flap. Toning to edges of textblock, slight rolling to spine, 1.5cm tear to upper spine of dust-jacket, wearing to top edge of jacket, scuffing to white back of jacket. Very good. A typically-Wodehousian farce set at the Earl of Shortlands' Beevor Castle.
Published by London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, no date [1950], 1950
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
[Classic Humour] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.254; [1], advertisements; [1], blank. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine and upper board. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Frank Ford with printed price of 8/6 net. No owner names. Some spotting to top edge, prelims and endleaves toned, jacket with a few small chips and tears, some rubbing to joints. Very good. A collection of short tales including two Drones Club stories, five Oldest member stories, a Blandings Castle story and an Uckridge caper.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine-. First Edition. Presumed First Impression (no copyright page bound in, as per McIlvaine). Small, thick 8vo: viii,247,[1]pp, with a frontispiece and 11 full-page monotone illustrations by T. M. R. Whitwell. Publisher's blue pictorial cloth, lettered and decorated in gold, black, yellow and cream titles to spine gilt; without the scarce dust jacket. McIlvaine, crediting Gould, notes two binding states of the first issue with no priority established, both involving the publisher's name in black type at base of the spine: one standing 1/8" tall, the other 3/16". Our is the latter. An excellent copy, square and tight with mild rubbing and bumping to extremities. Contents are marginally toned but unmarked, plates spotless. Jasen 15a. McElvaine A15a. First serialized in The Captain. The so-called second English edition (heavily revised) of The Prince and Betty, which first appeared in 1912. But comparison of the two manuscripts has shown that Psmith Journalist was actually written first, although not published until this edition of 1915. Regardless, Jasen calls Psmith "the best version of the three [McElvaine 14, 15a, and 16]." (The Prince and Betty appeared in two distinctly different versions, both published in 1912 by different publishers.) In Psmith Journalist, Psmith and Mike Jackson arrive in New York from Cambridge with their touring cricket team, encountering slum conditions and gang wars. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).