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Sale 3061 - P.G. Wodehouse Collection of William Toplis
May 7, 2020 6:00AM ET
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Wodehouse, P.G. The Girl in Blue

London: Barrie & Jenkins (1970). 8vo. 192 pp. First edition. Inscribed by Wodehouse to American lyricist Ira Gershwin: "To/Ira/All the best/from/Plum/P.G. Wodehouse/Dec. 22 1970". Original blue cloth-covered boards, stamped in gilt, a couple of bumps to extremities; in the original pictorial dust jacket with light toning to extremities, one short closed tear to top edge near spine panel, a couple of tiny nicks to edges. McIlvaine A93a. Together with: Autograph letter, signed by Ethel Wodehouse and addressed to Ira and Lee Gershwin. On P.G. Wodehouse's Long Island, NY stationary. Dec 27 - 1971. 2pp. In the original envelope. "Plum has been quite ill, but he is having oxygen every day, and he is much better now..."

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