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Lot 147
Sale 3061 - P.G. Wodehouse Collection of William Toplis
May 7, 2020
6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$1,000 -
1,500
Price Realized
$625
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Lot Description
Wodehouse, P.G. The White Feather
London: Adam & Charles Black, 1907. First edition, first issue. 8vo. 284 pp. Illustrated with frontispiece and 11 plates by W. Townend. Original tan pictorial cloth-covered boards, slightly cocked, moderately worn and rubbed, front board slightly affected by damp, stamped in gilt, black, and white; all edges trimmed, foxed; lacking half-title, later front free endpaper, foxing and dampstaining to endpapers, foxing to title-page, moderate to heavy foxing to text, chipping at upper edge of pp. 157-160; joint starting at pp. 32-33 and 80-81, ownership signature on front paste-down and recto of frontispiece, dampstaining to bottom corner of all plates; in blue linen-covered fall-down-back box. McIlvaine A8a.