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Lot 148
Sale 3061 - P.G. Wodehouse Collection of William Toplis
May 7, 2020
6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$400 -
600
Price Realized
$688
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Lot Description
Wodehouse, P.G. William Tell Told Again
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1904. First edition, first issue. 8vo. (viii), 105, (1), (2) (ads) pp. Illustrated with frontispiece and 15 plates by Philip Dadd. Original off-white pictorial cloth-covered boards, darkened, light soiling to front and rear boards, a few small closed tears at spine ends, stamped in gilt, green, black, and brown; top edge gilt, other edges trimmed; some pencil erasure on front free endpaper, hinge slightly cracked after first free endpaper, scattered spotting to text, top edge of plate facing p. 36 worn and darkened, some light edge wear to other plates; lacking scarce dust-jacket. McIlvaine A5a.