New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. First American edition. 8vo. 246 pp. Signed and inscribed by Wodehouse to Broadway actress Alice Dovey: "To/Billie/from/Pudge/P.G. Wodehouse/March 6-1955". Original quarter beige cloth over gray-blue paper-covered boards, stamped in brown with author's facsimile signature to front board, stamped in brown and gilt to spine, boards rubbed and worn with a few small holes to cloth near spine; small hole in upper margin of pp. 181-192, 195-202, 215-220, larger abrasion to pp. 227 through to rear free endpaper, not affecting text. McIlvaine A77b. Together with: A Damsel in Distress New York: George H. Doran Company, (1919). First edition. 8vo. 302 pp. Publisher's brown cloth, lacking dust jacket. McIlvaine A24a.