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Lot 23
Sale 3061 - P.G. Wodehouse Collection of William Toplis
May 7, 2020
6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$500 -
800
Price Realized
$563
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Lot Description
Wodehouse, P.G. A Damsel in Distress
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1920 (but, 1919). First English edition, first issue. 8vo. 319 pp. Inscribed by Wodehouse to his bibliographer and biographer David A. Jasen on title-page: "To David/from Plum/P.G. Wodehouse." Original dark red cloth-covered boards, cocked, moderately worn, scattered soiling to front and rear boards, spine slightly darkened, short tear at upper front board joint; all edges trimmed; hinge starting at pp. 176-177; in later issue dust-jacket (similar to McIlvaine reissue #10, 22nd printing, but without 5' price label on spine, but with 5' price printed on inside front flap). McIlvaine A24b.