Meet Mr. Mulliner
by WODEHOUSE, P. G.
London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd, 1927. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19.5cm). Green cloth stamped and lettered in black; plain endpapers; 312,[8]pp; 8 pages of publisher's ads at rear. Australian bookseller's ticket to front pastedown. Straight and sound, though gently rubbed with wear to extremities, minor spot to front upper board, erased pencil marks to endpapers, foxing to prelims, ads, and edges of textblock, with occasional scattered foxing throughout: Very Good. MCILVAINE A38A.
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The Mating Season
by WODEHOUSE, P. G.
London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd, 1949. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19cm). Orange cloth, stamped in black on boards and spine; plain endpapers; 246,[2]pp; 2pp of publisher's ads at rear. A sound copy, rubbed, with light soil to cloth, spine much sunned, lightly foxed: Good. MCILVAINE A69A.
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Uncle Fred in the Springtime
by WODEHOUSE, P. G.
London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd, 1939. First U.K. Edition. First printing. Octavo (19cm). Red cloth, titled in gilt on spine; plain endpapers; 311,[5]pp; 3pp of publisher's ads at rear. Bookplate of Douglas R. Vining. A straight, sound copy, spine sunned, edges rubbed, endpapers browned: Very Good. The fifth Blandings novel, preceded by the Doubleday, Doran & Co. US edition of the same year. MCILVAINE A61b.
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Summer Moonshine
by WODEHOUSE, P. G.
London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd, 1938. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19cm). Red cloth, stamped in black on boards and spine, top edge stained red; plain endpapers; 312,[8]pp; 8pp of publisher's ads at rear. Bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown ("Darley's Bookshop, Burton"). Straight and sound, with minor dirt to cloth, edges rubbed, free endpapers browned, minor pencil marks erased on front pastedown: around Very Good. Preceded by the 1937 US edition. MCILVAINE A59b.
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Mr. Mulliner Speaking
by WODEHOUSE, P. G.
London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd, 1929. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19cm). Orange cloth, stamped in black on boards and spine; plain endpapers; 320pp. A straight, sound copy, rubbed, endcaps frayed, dent to front board near spine, free endpapers browned: Good. MCILVAINE A40a.
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Good Morning Bill: A Three-Act Comedy
by WODEHOUSE, P. G.
London: Methuen, 1928. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19.5cm). Original blue cloth stamped in black; plain endpapers; 160, 8pp; publisher's catalogue at rear. Straight, rubbed, occasional spots of foxing: Very Good. Based on the Hungarian of Ladislaus Fodor. MCILVAINE C3a.
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Uncle Dynamite
by WODEHOUSE, P.G.
New York: Didier, [1948]. First American Edition. Octavo (20.75cm.); original simulated cloth in pictorial price clipped dust jacket; [8],312pp. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed with a couple of small losses to top edge of upper panel, neither touching text or illustration, spine slightly cocked, else Very Good and sound. The second Uncle Fred novel.
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The Plums of P.G. Wodehouse
by WODEHOUSE, P.G.; Joe Whitlock Blundell, ed; Paul Cox, illus
London: The Folio Society, 1997. Second printing of this edition, dated 1998 on verso of title page. Octavo; decorated gold-finish cloth hardcover, slipcase, 258pp; illus. Discreet embossed ownership stamp at base of title page, else a Fine copy, with no other evidence of use; in unworn slipcase that is subtly faded at upper third, Near Fine.
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Blandings Castle
by WODEHOUSE, P. G.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Green cloth, stamped in darker green in front and spine, top edge stained green; plain endpapers; [viii],311pp. A straight, tight copy, lightly faded at spine, rubbed at head, tail, and corners, endpapers browned, internally clean: Very Good. MCILVAINE A53b.
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A Prefect's Uncle
by WODEHOUSE, P. G.
London: A. & C. Black, 1924. Second edition, Black's Boy's Library series. Original orange cloth, stamped in black; plain endpapers; [viii],264pp; color frontispiece. Sturdy but rubbed, spine sunned: Good or better. Early reissue of Wodehouse's relatively uncommon second novel, a school story. MCILVAINE A2a.3.
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Quick Service
by WODEHOUSE, P. G.
London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd, 1940. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19cm). Red cloth, titled in gilt on spine; plain endpapers; 252,[4]pp; 4pp of publisher's ads at rear. Bookplate of Douglas R. Vining. A straight, sound copy, spine lightly sunned, pushed at head and tail, endleaves browned: Very Good. MCILVAINE A63a.
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Wodehouse on Golf
by WODEHOUSE, P. G.
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, [1941]. Sun Dial Press Reissue. Green cloth, stamped in black; plain endpapers; 844pp; list of Wodehouse titles opposite title page. Sound, spine dulled, endpapers browned: Very Good. MCILVAINE B7a 2.
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The Old Reliable
by WODEHOUSE, P.G.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1951. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); tan paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in red on spine; dustjacket; [ii],[6],7-217,[5]pp. Mild offsetting from jacket flaps onto endpapers, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.75), gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, with a closed tear at upper front panel, and some faint foxing on verso; Very Good+. A novel in which Wodehouse tackles Hollywood life, first serialized in Collier's magazine. MCILVAINE A71b.
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Big Money
by WODEHOUSE, P. G.
London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd, 1931. First U.K. Edition. First printing. Octavo (19cm). Orange cloth, stamped in black; plain endpapers; 314,[6]pp; 6pp of publisher's ads at rear. Bookplate of Douglas R. Vining. A straight, sound copy, spine sunned, rubbed with patches of discoloration at edges, rear endpapers foxed, final leaf of ads browned: Good. Preceded by the American edition of the same year. MCILVAINE A43b.
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The Golden Moth: A Musical Play of Adventure in Three Acts
by WODEHOUSE, P.G. and Fred Thompson (text & lyrics); NOVELLO, Ivor (music)
London: Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew, Limited, [1921]. First Edition. Quarto (31cm); original pictorial wrappers, backed in maroon cloth; [viii],112,[4]pp. Rubber-stamped signature of Ivor Novello on lower title page. Modest wear and creasing, wrappers dust-soiled, with a few tiny nicks and creases to same, and a small ink notation and small stain to front cover; several creased corners in text, with the holograph addition in pencil of a second verso in "Lonely Soldier" on pp.24-25 (in an undetermined hand, though... Read More
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Love Among the Chickens: A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm
by WODEHOUSE, P.G. (novel); BOTH, Armand (illustrations)
New York: The Circle Publishing Company, 1909. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); tan cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in black and red on spine and front cover; viii,350pp, with frontispiece and five plates of illustrations by Armand Both. Decorative bookplate of Douglas R. Vining to front pastedown, some offsetting to cloth at spine (likely from binders glue), else a fresh, Near Fine copy, lacking the rare dustjacket. Attractive copy of the author's first novel published in... Read More
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Psmith Journalist
by WODEHOUSE, P.G. (novel); WHITWELL, T.M.R. (illustrations)
London: A & C Black, Ltd, 1915. Second UK Edition. First Impression (and first under this title, originally published as The Prince and Betty in 1912). Octavo (20cm); in the first binding, with the publisher's name measuring 1/8" at base of spine; navy blue cloth, with titling and pictorial elements stamped in gilt, ivory, black, and yellow on spine and front cover; viii,247,[1]pp, with frontispiece and 11 plates of illustrations by T.M.R. Whitwell. Bookplate of Wodhouse collector Douglas R.... Read More
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Constantino Brumidi: Artist of the Capitol
by WOLANIN, Barbara (curator)
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1998. First Edition. Quarto (28cm). Pictorial card wrappers (softcover, as issued); 254pp; illus (one folding; many in color). Trace of rubbing to wrapper edges, still a tight, Near Fine copy, almost as-new. Extensively illustrated monograph of the artist's work. Issued as Senate Document 103-27.
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An Address, to the People of the United States, on the subject of the report of a committee of the House of Representatives, appointed to "Examine and report, whether monies drawn from the treasury, have been faithfully applied to the objects for which they were appropriated, and whether the same have been regularly accounted for," which report was presented on the 29th of April, 1802
by WOLCOTT, Oliver
Boston: Russell and Cutler, 1802. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); removed; 112pp. Stock a bit toned and slightly brittle, else Very Good and sound. Written in response to charges of impropriety and inefficiency in his administration of the Treasury Department, Wolcott having served under the John Adams presidency while openly adhering to the Hamiltonian High Federalist faction. Though never found guilty of wrong-doing, Wolcott "left office under a cloud of suspicion over a fire at the Treasury on 20 January... Read More
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The Uncelestial City [Signed, Numbered]
by WOLFE, Humbert
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1930. First Edition. One of 400 copies numbered and signed by the author, of which this is no.289. Octavo (20cm); brown cloth-covered boards, with yellow paper title label on spine; fore- and lower-edges untrimmed; dustjacket; [4],5-262,[2]pp. Light rubbing to board edges, with tanning to upper edge of textblock and faint off-setting to endpapers; Very Good. Dustwrapper tanned with shelf-soil, and tiny chips and tears to spine ends and extremities; Good. Collection of poetry, organized into... Read More
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Tucker's People
by WOLFERT, Ira
New York: L.B. Fischer, 1943. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.75); rust-colored cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in ivory on spine and front cover; 496pp, [4]. Spine ends gently nudged, with a barely-noticeable shallow stain to lower corner tips of pp.439-484; a tight, Near Fine copy. Wolfert's first novel, and his only venture into crime fiction. Tucker's People, based loosely on the life and times of mobster Dutch Schultz, was praised as one of the finest and most... Read More
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Gentlemen of the Press: A Play
by WOLFE, Thomas
Chicago: William Targ / The Black Archer Press, 1942. First Edition. Only Printing, one of 350 copies. Octavo (20cm); green cloth-covered boards, with yellow paper title label on spine and covers; light green wove endpapers; [7],8-27,[5]pp. No dustjacket, as issued. Previous owner's name and Jan. 1942 date inked on front endpaper. Trivial surface wear, lightly spine-faded, and foxing to edges of textblock; Very Good+. First separate printing of Gentlemen of the Press, which criticizes the press in its 1916... Read More
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Of Time and The River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth
by WOLFE, Thomas
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First Edition. First Printing, one of 10,000 copies. Thick octavo (21.5cm); black cloth, blocked and titled in green and gilt on spine and front cover; [x],912,[4]pp. A few scuffs to lower edge of textblock, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.00), gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, with a touch of dustiness to exterior, and several tiny nicks and tears to extremities; Very Good+. "A sequel to Look Homeward, Angel describing the author's young... Read More
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Thomas Wolfe: The Final Journey
by [WOLFE, Thomas] BERGER, Brian F. (introduction; itinerary); Edward M. Miller (memoir remembrance)
West Linn: Willamette River Press, 1984. First Edition. First Printing, one of 750 copies. Octavo (21cm); green cloth-covered boards, with titling and illustrations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; pictorial dustjacket; [iii],[11],12-45,[viii]pp; illustrated portrait frontispiece of Wolfe, with black and white photographs (halftones) throughout. Folded facsimile letter from Wolfe in rear pastedown pocket. Lower corners lightly tapped, else Fine in a Fine, unclipped (priced $10.00) dustwrapper. Describes Wolfe's and Miller's automobile journey through National Parks before... Read More
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The Letters of Thomas Wolfe
by WOLFE, Thomas (letters); NOWELL, Elizabeth (editor)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1956. First Edition. First Printing, with publisher's A-7.56[V] code on copyright page. Octavo (24cm); in Johnston's "Format A" binding, in black cloth and black-flecked blue paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xx,797,[1]pp, with portrait frontispiece of the author. Fine in a Very Good+ to Near Fine dustjacket, lightly edgeworn, with sunning to spine, and a few small, faint smudges to same. JOHNSTON A18.1.a.
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