WODEHOUSE, P.G. Leave it to Psmith.

Rare in the Dust-Jacket

WODEHOUSE, P.G. Leave it to Psmith. New York: George H. Doran Company. 1924.

8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, spine and upper board lettered in navy, upper board within ornamental border, in the original price-clipped dust-jacket; pp. 347, [1 (blank)]; very light wear to jacket with spotting to spine, very small closed tear to upper panel; else near-fine.

First US edition in book form, first printing of the fifth and final Psmith novel, centred on the character who first appeared in Mike (1909), rarely found in the original dust-jacket.

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. It was first published in book form by London publisher Herbert Jenkins on 30 November 1923. The ending of the magazine version was substantially rewritten for the book’s publication.

McIlvaine A31b.

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