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Lot 17

Sale 3061 - P.G. Wodehouse Collection of William Toplis
May 7, 2020 6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Wodehouse, P.G. Chums, An Illustrated Paper for Boys, 1896-97

London, etc: Cassell and Company, Limited, November 25, 1896-November 17, 1897. No's. 220-271, Vols. V-VI. 4to. iv, (210)-688, 16, (689)-832, 208 pp. Including the March 17, 1897 issue featuring an editors response to a letter written by a 16-year old Wodehouse on p. 476, possibly the earliest reference to Wodehouse in print. In it, the editor addresses two questions posed by Wodehouse, on the subjects of the appropriate hour of bed-time and the best means of staying fit. Illustrated with color frontispiece, 11 plates, and one large folding plate. Brown pebbled cloth-covered boards, front board detached, rear board detached but original ties intact, edges worn, spine ends worn, stamped in gilt; all edges trimmed; spotting to endpapers, text evenly toned, scattered short closed tears and creasing to edges, last leaf and rear free endpaper sprung. Not in McIlvaine.

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