WODEHOUSE, P. G.
Rare books by P. G. Wodehouse, including first editions, signed, and finely bound copies of the Jeeves novels.
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881–1975) was a prolific English writer who enjoyed a hugely popular career spanning more than seventy years. His writing includes novels, short stories, plays and poems, alongside song lyrics and a successful side in journalism. Contrary to many writers during his lifetime, Wodehouse avoided writing directly about political upheaval and both World Wars, instead focusing his attention on satirising the upper class English society both pre and post-World War One.
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. The Pothunters.London : 1902
First edition, first impression, of the author's rare first book. The first issue in blue cloth with silver lettering and cup designs. Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 87821
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. Tales of St Austin's.London : 1903
First edition, first impression, in the first issue binding with gilt lettering on the spine. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 126782
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. A Prefect's Uncle.1903
First edition, first impression, first issue without the ads at the end. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 66625
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. The Gold Bat.London : 1904
First edition, first issue with two pages of adverts. Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 122911
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. The Gold Bat.London : 1904
First edition, first impression, of this Wodehouse schoolboy classic. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 88989
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. William Tell Told Again.London : [1904]
First edition, first impression with only the early ads, as called for by McIlvaine. William Tell Told Again was one of Wodehouse's earliest books, published prior to his success with the Jeeves stories. Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 88882
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. The Gold Bat.London : 1904
First edition, first impression. Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 66628
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. The Swoop! Or, How Clarence Saved England.London : 1909
First edition, first impression. McIlvaine couples this with the notoriously difficult The Globe by the Way Book as being "among the rarest Wodehousiana". Exceptionally scarce in this condition. Learn More£8,500.00Stock Code: 88495
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. The Swoop!London : 1909
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,650.00Stock Code: 27759
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. The Intrusion of Jimmy.New York : 1910
First edition, preceding the UK edition by six months. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author four days after publication on the front free endpaper, "To Harrison Fisher with the author's compliments, P. G. Wodehouse. May 16 1910". Fisher (1877-1934) was an American illustrator known for his drawings of women, winning acclaim as the successor to... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 124315
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. A Gentleman of Leisure.London : 1910
First UK edition, first impression. Originally published in the US a few months earlier under the title The Intrusion of Jimmy. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 75435
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. The Prince and Betty.London : 1912
First UK edition, first impression. Originally published in the US three months earlier. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 86655
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. 13 vocal scores and an autograph letter signed.1916-1928
Handwritten letter, with envelope, from the author, 25 March 1920.
Have A Heart (New York: T. B. Harms and Francis, Day & Hunter, 1917), first edition.
Oh, Lady! Lady!! (New York: T. B. Harms Company, 1918), first edition.
Miss Springtime (New York: T. B. Harms and Francis, Day & Hunter, 1916), second edition (originally published 1915, titled... Learn More£4,000.00Stock Code: 49550
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. Piccadilly Jim.New York : 1917
First edition in book form, first printing. This work first appeared in serialized form in the Saturday Evening Post between 16 September and 11 November 1916. It was subsequently published in the UK in May 1918. An uncommon work, especially in the rare jacket; no copies of which have been traced at auction. Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 125814
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. [Complete set of Jeeves and Wooster titles.]London : 1919-74
First editions, first impressions, of the complete set of Jeeves and Wooster titles from the first collection, My Man Jeeves (1919), to the last story, Aunts Aren't Gentlemen (1974), and including the short story collections in which Jeeves and Wooster appear alongside other characters, all in their first London editions. Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 133030
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. Jill the Reckless.London : 1921
First UK edition, first impression. Jill the Reckless was originally published in the US the preceding year. Very uncommon. Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 91795
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. Love Among the Chickens.[1921]
Second edition, entirely rewritten, first issue. This title was Wodehouse's first novel for adults and the one in which he found his voice. Initially published in 1906 the author rewrote the work for publication in 1921. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 41766
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. The Clicking of Cuthbert.London : 1922
First edition, first issue. Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 94901
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. The Clicking of Cuthbert.London : 1922
First edition, first impression, of this collection of comic golfing stories. Rare in the dust jacket. Learn More£5,250.00Stock Code: 70222
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. Ukridge.London : 1924
First edition, first impression, in the scarce jacket, correctly priced 3/6 on the spine as with most Herbert Jenkins short story collections, and crucially unrestored. This collection of 10 short stories featuring Ukridge is the second appearance of the character in book form, following Love Among the Chickens (1906). Learn More£5,750.00Stock Code: 125151
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. Original manuscript of Bill the Conqueror, carbon typescript with autograph corrections.[1924]
Original manuscript of Bill the Conqueror, with final corrections for publication, presented by Wodehouse to his musical collaborator Jerome Kern (1885-1945), with the author's signed presentation inscription in ink on the typed title leaf: "To Jerry from Plum - P. G. Wodehouse 1924"; and with Kern's ink inscription below, re-presenting the manuscript... Learn More£45,000.00Stock Code: 76402
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. The Small Bachelor.London : 1927
First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Betty Askwith, with the author's compliments, P. G. Wodehouse June 1927". It is rare to find a signed or inscribed copy. Betty Askwith (1909-1995), the only daughter of the first Lord Askwith and Ellen Graham, published her first book of poems in 1928 at the age... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 126456
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. Good Morning Bill.London : 1928
First edition, first impression, later adapted into the novel Doctor Sally (1932). Copies with the jacket in collectable condition are uncommon. Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 140961
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. Meet Mr. Mulliner.Garden City, New York : 1928
First US edition, first printing of this collection of nine short stories. With this book, Wodehouse introduces the character of Mr. Mulliner who narrates all of the tales. Originally published by Herbert Jenkins Limited, London, in 1927. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 90840
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. If I Were You.London : 1931
First UK edition, first impression, published 25 September 1931, and therefore just preceded by the Doubleday, Doran edition published at New York, 3 September. With his co-writer Guy Bolton, Wodehouse dramatized the story as Who's Who, 1934. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 109700
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. If I Were You.London : 1931
First UK edition, first impression, published 25 September 1931, and therefore just preceded by the Doubleday, Doran edition published at New York, 3 September. Wodehouse dramatized the story with Guy Bolton as Who's Who, 1934. Learn More£1,800.00Stock Code: 60549
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. Hot Water.London : 1932
First edition, first impression, in the scarce dust jacket. Wodehouse adapted the story, which is set in the 1920s in a fictional French seaside town, for stage as The Inside Stand (1935). Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 125148
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. Louder and Funnier.London : 1932
First edition, first impression. A collection of 19 humorous essays, reworked from articles published in Vanity Fair between 1914 and 1923. In his introduction to the book, Wodehouse explains that he borrowed the title from "the old story... of the nervous after-dinner speaker" who is speaking in a faltering undertone when a voice demands "Louder, please",... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 91641
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. Doctor Sally.London : 1932
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,875.00Stock Code: 88625
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. Heavy Weather.London : 1933
First edition, first impression, of this sequel to Summer Lightning (1929). Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 110693
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. Right Ho Jeeves.London : 1934
First edition, first impression. The second full-length novel featuring Jeeves and Wooster, published on 5 October 1934, following hot on the heels of Thank You, Jeeves (16 March 1934), and "containing one of the most memorable drunk scenes in all English literature when Gussie presents the prizes chapter XVI... A Wodehouse classic" (Jasen).... Learn More£575.00Stock Code: 135699
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. The Code of the Woosters.London : 1938
First edition in book form, first impression, with eight pages of adverts at the rear as called for by McIlvaine. The Code of the Woosters was first published as a serial in the Saturday Evening Post from 16 July to 3 September 1938. It was published simultaneously in the UK and US on 7 October 1938. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 125813
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. Summer Moonshine.London : 1938
First UK edition, first impression. Originally published in the US in the previous year. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 69210
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. Quick Service.London : 1940
First edition, first impression. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 94917
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. Quick Service.London : 1940
First edition, first impression. Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 120475
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. Uncle Dynamite.London : [1948]
First edition, first impression, of the second Uncle Fred novel. Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 108088
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves.London : 1963
First UK edition, first impression. It was published in the U.S. earlier in the same year. Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 139876
