‘Elementary, My Dear Watson’
WODEHOUSE, P.G.; T.M.R. WHITWELL (illustrator). Psmith Journalist. London: A and C Black, 1915.
8vo. Publisher’s blue pictorial cloth decorated in cream and yellow, upper board lettered in yellow, spine lettered in gilt; pp. 247, [1 (blank)]; frontispiece and a further 11 black-and-white plates by T.M.R. Whitwell; sporadic light foxing (heavier to first and final leaves) nonetheless a good copy; old ownership inscription to front pastedown.
First edition in book form, first printing, including one of the earliest known uses in print of the phrase ‘Elementary, my dear Watson’.
First serialised in The Captain magazine between October 1909 and February 1910, and repurposed and incorporated in Wodehouse’s earlier US novel The Prince and Betty (1912), the book continues the story of Mike and Psmith, two of Wodehouse’s most loved characters. In 2019, it was included in the BBC’s list of the ‘100 Most Inspiring Novels’.
McIlvaine A15c, issue a.
SKU: 2126301
‘Elementary, My Dear Watson’
WODEHOUSE, P.G.; T.M.R. WHITWELL (illustrator). Psmith Journalist. London: A and C Black, 1915.
8vo. Publisher’s blue pictorial cloth decorated in cream and yellow, upper board lettered in yellow, spine lettered in gilt; pp. 247, [1 (blank)]; frontispiece and a further 11 black-and-white plates by T.M.R. Whitwell; sporadic light foxing (heavier to first and final leaves) nonetheless a good copy; old ownership inscription to front pastedown.
First edition in book form, first printing, including one of the earliest known uses in print of the phrase ‘Elementary, my dear Watson’.
First serialised in The Captain magazine between October 1909 and February 1910, and repurposed and incorporated in Wodehouse’s earlier US novel The Prince and Betty (1912), the book continues the story of Mike and Psmith, two of Wodehouse’s most loved characters. In 2019, it was included in the BBC’s list of the ‘100 Most Inspiring Novels’.
McIlvaine A15c, issue a.
SKU: 2126301
