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Wodehouse, Collection of 112 volumes (and one loose dust-jacket), mostly reprints

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December 10, 05:26 PM GMT

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2,000 - 3,000 GBP

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From the Collection of J.J. Looijestijn


WODEHOUSE, P.G.

112 volumes (and one loose dust-jacket), mostly reprints or later editions, comprising:


i) Love Among the Chickens. Jenkins, 1921, second English edition, original cloth, [cf McIlvaine A7c], browning, binding worn, facsimile dust-jacket; ii) The White Feather. Black, 1922, reissue, coloured frontispiece, original cloth, [McIlvaine A8a5], binding worn and skewed; iii) Mike. Black, 1910, later impression, 12 plates, original pictorial cloth, 8pp. publisher’s catalogue at end, JAMES H. HEINEMAN bookplate, [McIlvaine A12a2], hinges splitting, facsimile dust-jacket; iv) Mike and Psmith. Jenkins, 1953, first edition thus, original cloth, dust-jacket, [McIlvaine A12c3], some loss to dust-jacket spine; v) Mike at Wrykyn. Jenkins, 1953, first edition thus, original cloth, dust-jacket, [McIlvaine A12e1], abrasions to dust-jacket, minor loss to dust-jacket spine; vi) The Prince and Betty. Jenkins, [1925], reset edition, original cloth, [cf McIlvaine A15b5], lacking all before title-page, binding worn and with repairs, facsimile dust-jacket; vii) Psmith Journalist. Black, 1923, reset edition, original cloth, [cf McIlvaine A15c2], repair to upper hinge; viii) The Little Nugget. Methuen, 1913, second edition, original cloth, [McIlvaine A16a2], facsimile dust-jacket; ix) Bill the Conqueror. Methuen, 1950, later edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, [McIlvaine A33a17], some soiling to dust-jacket; x) Carry On, Jeeves. Jenkins, [c.1936], later edition (“seventh printing”), original cloth, [cf McIlvaine A34a4 and A34a5]; xi) The Heart of a Goof. Jenkins, [1927], second printing, original cloth, dust-jacket, [McIlvaine A36a2], library stamps, loss and tears to dust-jacket; xii) The Great Sermon Handicap. New York: Heineman, 1983, later edition, number 329 of 500 copies, original wrappers, [McIlvaine A49a3], spine faded; xiii-cxii) together with one hundred others; cxiii) dust-jacket for Uneasy Money. Methuen, [c.1930s?], tears and some loss; all mostly 8vo, mostly original bindings several with collector’s slipcases, some spotting and browning, many with collector’s stamp


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