Wodehouse, P.G. and others

i) Wodehouse, P.G. Love Among the Chickens. Jenkins, [1921]; ii) Wodehouse, P.G. The Girl on the Boat. Jenkins, 1925, binding out of shape with wear and loss; iii) Wodehouse, P.G. Money in the Bank. Jenkins, 1946, first English edition; iv) Wodehouse, P.G. Spring Fever. Jenkins, [1948], first English edition; v) Wodehouse, P.G. The Old Reliable. Jenkins, 1951, first edition, dust-jacket; vi) Donaldson, Frances. Yours, Plum: The Letters of P.G. Wodehouse. Hutchinson, 1990, inscribed, dust-jacket; together with 22 other funny and quirky titles, of which 8 inscribed to Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire, mostly 8vo, original cloth and wrappers, many with the Duchess's bookplate (28)

including McIlvaine A7c.5, A28b.5, A64b.1, A67b.1, A71a.1, B6b.3 and B19.1

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The Best of Beachcomber, also included in this lot, was chosen by the Duchess as one of ten books - although she ultimately only listed six - she would take "for company on the Trans-Siberian Railway" (All in One Basket (2011), pp.117-123).

Explaining her inability to select the full number of titles, the Duchess explains: "Coming to the end of some gripping story or reaching the inevitable death of the subject of a biography is like losing a friend whom you have begun to depend upon day and night in a secret liaison with the author. It is no good saying you can read it again. It is never the same the second time."