Wodehouse (P.G.) Thank you, Jeeves
£3,750
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1934.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, colonial issue, with original wrap-around.
One of the key ’30s Jeeves titles, in a great, bright example of the original Abbey jacket, with “Herbert Jenkins’ Colonial Library” to spine and the original belly-band, declaring “For the first time the incomparable Jeeves in a long complete novel” – extremely uncommon!
In stock
VG; a little minor chipping to spine ends and corners, with small section of loss near foot of spine, but o/w an excellent jacket.
Jacket artwork by Abbey.
McIlvaine A51a.
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