Ticknor & Fields / Ellery Queen Mystery Club / Joan Kahn Book, September 1981. Book Club. Cloth. In mildly edgeworn dustjacket. Mauve cloth covered boards with gold foil lettering stamped on spine. Soundly bound. Clean, unmarked interiors. More
Grosset & Dunlap, 1965. Cloth. In price-clipped dustjacket with spine-sunning, edgewear, and marginal staining. Red cloth boards discolored at bottom fore-edge corners front & back. Otherwise clean, sound with gold lettering spine edge. Red topstain & tight binding. Internally unmarked. No underlining. No markings that I see other than one..... More
International Polygonics, January 1991. Hardcover. Octavo. 1990 reprint of 1981 collection of the Wodehouse comic version of crime/mystery. In very good dustjacket. Tan paper covered boards (dark stains along bottom edge front & back) with gold lettering at spine. Sound binding. Clean interiors. More
N/A, November 1975. Mass Market PaperBack. A debonair young Englishman quits the fish business and decides to support himself by doing anything that he is hired to do by anyone. More
Herbert Jenkins, January 1955. Hardcover. More
Penguin Books, September 1991. Paper Back. T. Paterson Frisby possessed $20million and loved every cent of them. His secretary, Berry Conway, possessed only a dud copper mine; and Biscuit, Berry's schoolfriend, nothing but a title. The pair needed money, big money; but frisking Frisby wouldn't be easy. Mild wear... More
Pennyfarthing Editions / Dorset, June 1988. Mass Market PaperBack. No markings. Clean & sound. Gently read. Very good+/fine. More
Simon and Schuster, January 1955. First American. Hardcover. In jacket with half inch chips at bottom & top of spine and front panel corners. Otherwise several tears & edgewear. Blue cloth spine with brown & gold lettering. Blue paper covered boards with stamped facsimile signature front board. Darkening & wear..... More
Harper Perennial, February 1990. Soft Cover. Mild wear. More
Hutchinson, September 1980. Hardcover. (5 inches & 7 & 3/4 inches) Reprint in very good dust jacket. Not price clipped. Original British price bottom corner of front flap. Black cloth with gold lettering. Clean, sound. Without markings. More
Simon and Schuster, January 1971. First American. Cloth. First/first (U.S.) edition in price clipped, much worn dust jacket. Jacket darkened at spine & margins, with edgewear, creases & tears. Turquoise cloth with silver lettering & excellent Osbert Lancaster silver illustration front board. Board edges browning with small damp stain top..... More
James H Heineman, January 1992. Hardcover. In edgeworn dust jacket. Off-white boards with red lettering. Clean interior text. Tight binding. More
HarperCollins, September 1985. Paper Back. Damp stained. Spine cocked. Reading copy only. More
Pocket Books / Blackiston, November 1943. Mass Market PaperBack. 19th Pocket Book edition, 'complete & unabridged'. Shelf wear. Spine is sound: bowed from age. Verso of wrapper is pink, likewise inside first & last page. Matching pink fore-edge, top & bottom staining. More
Triangle, March 1940. Cloth. 5th printing in chipped/edgeworn dust jacket. Rose tinted top edge. Clean text. Some slight lean to spine. More
Penguin (Non-Classics), October 1975. Mass Market PaperBack. Monty Bodkin's wooing of Gertrude Butterwick on the RMS Atlantic is not progressing as it should. And the cause of all the trouble is Miss Lotus Blossum, the brightest star in Hollywood's firmament. The easy camaraderie of Miss Blossom is causing Mr Bodkin..... More
Pennyfarthing / Dorset Press, June 1988. Mass Market PaperBack. Clean, sound, no markings in text. More
Simon and Schuster, 1970. First American. Hardcover. First/first in very good dust jacket. NOT price clipped. Original price of $4.95 on flap. Quarter bound with rose cloth & red paper covered boards. Black lettering on spine. Boards faded at margins. Pink topstain a dull pink. Sound binding. Clean interiors without..... More
Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1952. First American. Cloth. First US edition in bright jacket with 1/4 inch by 1/2 inch chip at top of front panel next to spine. One & 1/2 inch spidery closed tear front panel toward bottom left corner. NOT price clipped. Original price of $2.75 on..... More
Perennial, June 1990. Paper Back. Mild user wear. Tight binding. Remainder marking bottom textblock edge. More
Herbert Jenkins, 1956. First Thus. Cloth. Unifrom Autograph Edition (with facsimile signatures: in green on jacket; blind stamped on board; & in black on title page) in very good+ dust jacket. NOT price clipped. English price on front flap. Green cloth with gold lettering in fleur-de-lis style brown background with..... More
Simon & Schuster, September 1978. First American. Cloth. First/first in very good dust jacket. NOT price clipped. Original price of $8.95 on flap. Brown boards with white lettering on spine & Ionicus illustration. Yellow end pages. Foxing top edge & fore-edge. Simon & Schuster colophon stamp bottom textblock edge... More
Barnes & Noble, January 1993. Hardcover. More
Sun Dial Press, 1937. Cloth. Reprint in chipped & edgeworn, darkened dust jacket. Green cloth with blue lettering & illustrations on spine & front board. Tanned/darkened end pages. Previous owner's name & a date (August 1939) inked across top of front pastedown. Top textblock edge tinted black. Fore-edge deckled. Solid..... More
Methuen, January 1932. Hardcover. 12mo. (Four & 1/2-inch x Seven-inches); 11th edition; dustjacket is missing. Blue cloth covered boards with black lettering on spine & black border on front board. Stains front board. Heavily worn at margins. Bowed spine. Sound binding: pulled at top, tight at bottom. Heavy darkening &..... More
Simon and Schuster, 1958. Hardcover. 2nd printing in sunned, chipped jacket with ex-library label on spiine. Quarter bound with pink cloth spine with black & green lettering: 'Wodehouse' in white marker by the hand of a librarian. Ex-library given: rubber stamps, thick black marker streaks, pocket scars, as well as..... More
Simon and Schuster, 1968. First American. Cloth. First/first in very good dust jacket. NOT price clipped. Original price of $4.50 on flap. Blue cloth spine with gold lettering & yellow paper covered boards. Some lean to spine. Binding sound. Mild tanning to end pages. Blue topstain is heavily sunned &..... More
Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929. Cloth. (5 & 1/4 x 7 & 1/2 inches) No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gold lettering on spine & front board. Worn at board edges, most noticably at top & bottom of spine. Darkening text block edges. Previous owner's address sticker (1/2 x 2..... More
Herbert Jenkins, 1956. First Thus. Cloth. Another collection of excellent Wodehouse Golf stories. 12mo -- duodecimo (five-inches x seven & 1/2-inches) 2nd edition. First issued in 1926 by Herbert Jenkins Limited, then reissued in 1956 by Herbert Jenkins/Autograph Editions. In price-clipped dustjacket. Jade green cloth. On spine: gold lettering framed..... More
Penguin Books, May 1991. Mass Market PaperBack. 9th Penguin mass market printing. Clean, solid, without markings in text. More
A.L. Burt Company, 1921. Cloth. Reprint. No dustjacket. Maroon cloth boards with gilt details & lettering. Spine darkened, lettering beginning to fade. Darkening to end pages & textblock edges, especially top edge. Cloth pulled top of spine, but binding is still sound. Clean, unmarked text. More
Penguin Books, October 1975. Trade Paperback. Small tears to front cover top & bottom of spine at corner. Cover remains soundly attached to spine. Binding is solid. More
Folio Society, 1989. Hardcover. Pictorial silver cloth in red slipcase. More
Penguin Books, October 1981. Mass Market PaperBack. UK printing. Clean, sound. Mild darkening textblock margins. More
Methuen, 1941. Trade Paperback. 16th printing in tattered, stained jacket, darkened at margins with several missing pieces of various size: (3 inches x one inch, the largest, at top of spine & wrapping around to back panel to (3/4 inch x One & 1/4 inch at bottom of spine, 2nd..... More
Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1937. Cloth. 14th Edition; (Four & 3/4-inches x Seven-inches) Blue cloth with worn margins. Black lettering on spine & black border front panel. Dark smudges highly visible in strong lightly. Good binding. Heavily darkened textblock edges. Tanning to end pages. Interior text is without markings. No..... More
Rupa Paperback / Vintage, 1993. Soft Cover. 12mo. Shelf wear & darkening. More
Black, 1925. Hardcover. Torn at top of spine; cloth sunned and darkened; foxing throughout. A reading copy only. More
Penguin Books, 1971. Mass Market PaperBack. Tanned/darkening of margins. Creased front cover along spine edge. More
Rupa & Co. / Vintage Paperbacks, 1993. Trade Paperback. 2nd Rupa printing of Wodehouse's 1922 novel. Right ho, Jeeves was the 2nd novel to feature iconic heroes, Jeeves & Bertie, arguably the most beloved comic duo in all of British literature. Clean, sound, very good condition. More
Rupa, 1993. Soft Cover. 12mo. 2nd Rupa Indian printing. Shelf wear, mild soiling. More
Barrie & Jenkins, 1979. Cloth. 1979 reissue in uniform jacket design of 1932 classic. In price clipped, edgeworn jacket with marginal darkening & large grey stain of verso rear panel. Very good black cloth with gold lettering on spine. Soft bumps to 3 of 4 corners. Non-authorial inscription inked on..... More
Rupa, 1993. Soft Cover. 12mo. 2nd Rupa Indian printing. Mild shelf wear. Previous dealer's sticker: E.D. Galgotia & Sons of New Delhi affixed inside first page. More
Avon, April 1979. Paper Back. Heavy wear. Damp stains. Spine lean. Creased cover corners. Yet this remains a decent reading copy despite the defects. Sound binding. More
Herbet Jenkins Limited, 1933. Cloth. 9th printing in dust jacket with edgewear. Orange cloth with black lettering on front board & spine. Darkening to textblock edges. Clean text. More
Harper & Row / Perennial Library, June 1990. Paper Back. Clean, solid. Remainder mark bottom textblock edge. Otherwise without markings. Published in 1954 by Herbert Jenkins in the UK by this title. For reasons known only to captains of industry of an earlier era Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit was..... More
