WODEHOUSE, P.G. Leave it to Psmith.

The Last Psmith Novel

WODEHOUSE, P.G. Leave it to Psmith. London: Herbert and Jenkins, 1924.

8vo. Publisher’s green cloth, spine and upper board lettered and decorated in black, with a facsimile dust-jacket; pp. 327, [1 (blank)]; traces of adhesive to inner margin of half-title, slight wear to spine ends; some foxing to top- and fore-edges of textblock; a very good copy; contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper verso, old bookseller’s ticket of Dymock’s Book Arcade, Sydney to front pastedown, front panel of ?original dust-jacket loosely inserted.

First edition in book form, first printing of the fifth and final Psmith novel, centred on the character who had first appeared in Mike (1909).

The novel was previously serialised in the Saturday Evening Post in the US from 3 February to 24 March 1923, and in The Grand Magazine in the UK from April to December of the same year. The ending of the magazine version was substantially rewritten for the book publication.

McIlvaine A31a.

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