WODEHOUSE, P.G. Mr. Mulliner Speaking.

‘With the Author’s Compliments’

WODEHOUSE, P.G. Mr. Mulliner Speaking. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company. 1930.

8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, lettered and decorated in dark blue to upper board and spine, in the illustrated dust-jacket by Wallace Morgan priced $2.00 to front flap, publisher’s codes ‘1694’ and ‘1695’ to front and black flaps respectively as called for by McIlvaine; pp. [10], 334; dust-jacket worn with two small losses to spine ends affecting publisher’s name at foot, two small holes to rear fold, cloth spine toned with slight fraying at head; internally very good; authorial inscription ‘With the author’s | compliments | P.G. Wodehouse | June 1930’ in black ink to front free endpaper.

First US edition, first printing of the second collection to feature Mr. Mulliner as the narrator, this copy inscribed and dated by Wodehouse.

Following Meet Mr. Mulliner (1927), Mr. Mulliner returns to regale his listeners at The Angler’s Rest with nine short stories about various members of his extensive family. The stories had previously appeared in British and American magazines between 1924 and 1929.

Mcllvaine A40b.

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