WODEHOUSE, P.G. Bertie Wooster Sees It Through.

Advance Copy

WODEHOUSE, P.G. Bertie Wooster Sees It Through. New York: Simon & Schuster. 1955. [offered with:] WODEHOUSE, P.G. ‘Double Jeopardy’, in Star Weekly Complete Novel. Toronto. 4 December 1954.

[offered with:]

WODEHOUSE, P.G. ‘Double Jeopardy’, in Star Weekly Complete Novel. Toronto. 4 December 1954. £950

Bertie Wooster Sees it Through: 8vo. Publisher’s cream buckram-backed boards with blue-grey paper sides, spine lettered in burgundy and gilt with burgundy lettering-piece, facsimile Wodehouse signature to upper board, in the unclipped first-printing dust-jacket illustrated by Dick Dodge; spine of jacket toned with light offsetting to cloth spine, else a very good copy; half-title signed by Wodehouse.

Double Jeopardy: Folio (385 x 275 mm); pp. 16, with front-page illustration by Alex Redmond; pages uniformly toned, a few small stains to front-page, else near fine.

First US edition, first printing, an advance copy from Simon & Schuster with the publisher’s slip loosely inserted, signed by Wodehouse to the half-title, offered with a copy of the 4 December 1954 issue of the Toronto Star Weekly, in which the story had appeared a few weeks earlier.

Bertie Wooster Sees It Through is the seventh Jeeves and Wooster story. It was published in the UK by Herbert Jenkins on 15 October 1954, as Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit. Before the first US edition, the story was also published in the Canadian magazine Star Weekly, the weekend supplement of the Toronto Star newspaper, under the alternative title Double Jeopardy.

Mcllvaine A77b.

SKU: 2126167