Wodehouse’s Last Novel, Signed by the Illustrator
WODEHOUSE, P.G. Sunset at Blandings. London: Chatto and Windus. 1977.
8vo. Publisher’s turquoise boards, spine lettered in gilt, in the unclipped dust-jacket illustrated by Ionicus (i.e. Joshua Charles Armitage), pictorial endpapers by Ionicus showing map of Blandings Castle; pp. 213, [1 (blank)]; very light wear to spine ends and to corners of jacket; else fine; signed ‘J.C. Armitage (ionicus)’ in blue ink to title page (see below); loosely inserted printout of a 2016 email exchange between Graeme Davidson and Wodehouse collector Tony Ring, concerning the book’s market value.
First edition, first printing of Wodehouse’s final, unfinished novel, this copy signed by Ionicus (pseudonym for Joshua Charles Armitage, 1913–1998), the illustrator of the dust-jacket.
The aptly-named final Blandings story, published after Wodehouse’s death on 14 February 1975 when he had left the manuscript unfinished.
Mcllvaine A100a.
SKU: 2126231
Wodehouse’s Last Novel, Signed by the Illustrator
WODEHOUSE, P.G. Sunset at Blandings. London: Chatto and Windus. 1977.
8vo. Publisher’s turquoise boards, spine lettered in gilt, in the unclipped dust-jacket illustrated by Ionicus (i.e. Joshua Charles Armitage), pictorial endpapers by Ionicus showing map of Blandings Castle; pp. 213, [1 (blank)]; very light wear to spine ends and to corners of jacket; else fine; signed ‘J.C. Armitage (ionicus)’ in blue ink to title page (see below); loosely inserted printout of a 2016 email exchange between Graeme Davidson and Wodehouse collector Tony Ring, concerning the book’s market value.
First edition, first printing of Wodehouse’s final, unfinished novel, this copy signed by Ionicus (pseudonym for Joshua Charles Armitage, 1913–1998), the illustrator of the dust-jacket.
The aptly-named final Blandings story, published after Wodehouse’s death on 14 February 1975 when he had left the manuscript unfinished.
Mcllvaine A100a.
SKU: 2126231
