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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 Great Sermon Handicap

London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1933). First edition. 32mo. (64) pp. Original red faux-leather-covered boards, wear to extremities and corners, stamped in gilt; marbled endpapers; in original illustrated dust-jacket, chipping to spine ends and corners, light edge wear; in red linen-covered fall-down-back box. McIlvaine A49a. Together with: Wodehouse, P.G. The Great Sermon Handicap New York: James H. Heineman, Inc., 1982. First edition thus, unnumbered of 500 copies. 8vo. Signed once and inscribed two times by illustrator William Hewison, with his note on title-page indicating, "This edition was destroyed on instructions of James Heineman, New York, because it has '17 faults or deficiences in it.' It would appear that there are now only three copies of this edition--this and two others. W.H." Original limp red wrappers, spine and rear edges faded.

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