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Lot 80
Sale 3061 - P.G. Wodehouse Collection of William Toplis
May 7, 2020
6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$600 -
900
Price Realized
$500
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Lot Description
Wodehouse, P.G. Mike, A Public School Story
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1909. First edition, first issue. 8vo. 339 pp. Illustrated with frontispiece and 11 plates by T.M.R. Whitwell. Original pictorial green cloth-covered boards, slightly cocked, front joint lightly rubbed, spine ends a bit worn and chipped, small bump to upper front board corner, other corners lightly worn, stamped in gilt, white, black, and red; all edges trimmed; old ownership inscription on the front free endpaper; small book-plate on front paste-down, light spotting to prelims, darkening and creasing along top edge of plate facing p. 164, small abrasion to bottom corner of same; in black cloth-covered fall-down-back box. A handsome copy. McIlvaine A12a.