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. Love Among the Chickens.New York : 1909
First US edition, first printing, with the advance notice, of the author's first book to be published in the US.
McIlvaine notes that "the copyright was taken out by A. E. Baerman who was Wodehouse's agent in New York for a short time. 'But I remember ages ago a crook agent pinched all the serial money for my Love among the Chickens, had it... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 144122
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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. Psmith Journalist.London : 1915
First UK edition under this title (third overall), first impression. Psmith Journalist was first published in New York, 1912, and again in London the same year, under the title The Prince and Betty (as listed by McIlvaine). "The best version of the three" (Jasen).
All three books have overlapping characters and plot, but are... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 142307
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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... 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. My Man Jeeves.London : [1919]
First edition, first impression. Half of the stories in this collection of eight feature Jeeves, the other half Reggie Pepper, an early prototype for Bertie Wooster.
This first impression is not to be confused with the later impression which is distinguishable by the much redder colour of its binding, and is slightly taller. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 143328
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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. 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. 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. Thank You, Jeeves.London : 1934
First edition, first impression, in the 1935 reissue jacket priced 2/6 on the spine (and 7/6 to front flap). Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 143554
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. Blandings Castle and Elsewhere.London : 1935
First edition, first impression, in an uncommon variant binding not mentioned in McIlvaine. This is the first collected edition of these six short stories, which were originally published in British or American magazines. Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 143325
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. Mulliner Omnibus.London : 1935
First omnibus edition, first impression, in the first issue jacket (priced 7'6 on the spine panel). Collects the stories in Meet Mr Mulliner (1927), Mr Mulliner Speaking (1929), and Mulliner Nights (1933), as well as all the Mulliner stories in Blandings Castle (1935). Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 142231
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. The Crime Wave at Blandings.New York : 1937
First edition, first printing. There was no UK equivalent of this collection, though the title story was also published in the UK in the same year in a different collection titled Lord Emsworth and Others. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 142234
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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. Eggs, Beans and Crumpets.London : 1940
First edition (preceding the US edition by three weeks and with different contents), first impression, first issue jacket (priced 7'6 on the spine panel), and a very nice copy.
This collection of short stories, written as told to members of the Drones Club, opens with four tales of the misadventures of Bingo Little, now happily married to best-selling... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 142229
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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. Money in the Bank.London : 1946
First UK edition, first impression, of one of Wodehouse's standalone novels. It was originally published in the US in 1942. Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 143699
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. A Few Quick Ones.New York : 1959
First edition, first printing, in a variant binding not noted in McIlvaine. This edition was published in April 1959, the first UK edition was published in June of the same year. Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 142211
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. A Few Quick Ones.London : 1959 [1978]
First edition, presumed fourth or fifth impression, with a jacket very similar to the first impression's but priced at "7/6 net" (which is not mentioned in McIlvaine who only notes a jacket priced at "12/6 net"), and with no listed address on rear panel. Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 142235
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. Plum Pie.London : 1966
First edition, first impression. Plum Pie was published in the US a year later. Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 142268
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. Jeeves and The Tie That Binds.New York : 1971
First US edition, first printing. Published in the UK on the same day under the title Much Obliged Jeeves. Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 142187
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. Aunts Aren't Gentlemen.London : 1974
First edition, first impression. Aunts Aren't Gentlemen was published the following in the US under the title The Cat-Nappers. Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 142226
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. Mike.London : 1909
First edition, first impression, of his uncommon early Wodehouse title, and his last public school novel, in which "something extraordinary happened: Wodehouse, as a writer, moved into a higher and dazzling sphere. In its narrative energy, dialogue, characterization, and ability to create sunny laughter, Mike is Wodehouse's first masterpiece. George... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 142272
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. Psmith in the City. A Sequel to "Mike".London : 1910
First edition, first impression, of the sequel to Mike, published the previous year. "This truly belongs to the public school books, but Psmith helps to bridge the gap. The bank portion is autobiographical and Mike's reactions were those of young Wodehouse" (Jasen).
Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 142292
