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WODEHOUSE, P.G. Over Seventy: An Autobiography with Digressions.
WODEHOUSE, P.G. Over Seventy: An Autobiography with Digressions. [[bmid:2126151a]]
WODEHOUSE, P.G. Over Seventy: An Autobiography with Digressions. [[bmid:2126151b]]
WODEHOUSE, P.G. Over Seventy: An Autobiography with Digressions.
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WODEHOUSE, P.G. Over Seventy: An Autobiography with Digressions.

London: Herbert Jenkins. 1957.

Stock number: 2126151
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    • Presented to Wodehouse’s Editor

      WODEHOUSE, P.G. Over Seventy: An Autobiography with Digressions. London: Herbert Jenkins. 1957.

      8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, gilt facsimile signature of P.G. Wodehouse to upper board, top-edge red, photographic dust-jacket with printed price of 16/- to front flap; pp. 190, [2 (publisher’s advertisements)]; spine of jacket sunned, edges of jacket worn, slightly cocked, wear to spine ends; light offsetting to endpapers, but otherwise internally clean; very good; authorial inscription ‘To | Peter | All the best from | Plum | P.G. Wodehouse | Oct 21, 1957’ in blue ink to front free endpaper (see below).

      First UK edition, first printing, this copy inscribed by the author to Simon & Schuster editor Peter Schwed (1911–2003), Wodehouse’s friend and US editor.

      An autobiographical work, the book brings together a series of articles which first appeared in Punch. It was published the previous year in the US under the title America, I Like You.

      McIlvaine A79b.

      SKU: 2126151

    Presented to Wodehouse’s Editor

    WODEHOUSE, P.G. Over Seventy: An Autobiography with Digressions. London: Herbert Jenkins. 1957.

    8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, gilt facsimile signature of P.G. Wodehouse to upper board, top-edge red, photographic dust-jacket with printed price of 16/- to front flap; pp. 190, [2 (publisher’s advertisements)]; spine of jacket sunned, edges of jacket worn, slightly cocked, wear to spine ends; light offsetting to endpapers, but otherwise internally clean; very good; authorial inscription ‘To | Peter | All the best from | Plum | P.G. Wodehouse | Oct 21, 1957’ in blue ink to front free endpaper (see below).

    First UK edition, first printing, this copy inscribed by the author to Simon & Schuster editor Peter Schwed (1911–2003), Wodehouse’s friend and US editor.

    An autobiographical work, the book brings together a series of articles which first appeared in Punch. It was published the previous year in the US under the title America, I Like You.

    McIlvaine A79b.

    SKU: 2126151

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