Those who pass by our Fulham Road shop on a regular enough basis will already be aware that our window display changes frequently. Just in case you won’t have the chance to see it for yourself, we thought we’d keep you up-to-date on the books, prints and curiosities making an appearance each time a reshuffle takes place.
Below you’ll find listings for each of the items featured; Should you wish to enquire further, you can simply email mail@peterharrington.co.uk
14 items housed in two white and green cloth cases with green paper label to spines and gilt titles. 1916–1928
Handwritten letter, with envelope, from the author dated March 25 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 Little Miss Springtime).
Kissing Time (London: Chappell & Co., Ltd., 1919), first edition.
The Cabaret Girl (London & New York: Chappell & Co., Ltd., & T. B. Harms Co., 1922), later issue.
The Golden Moth (London: Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew, n.d.) later edition.
The Beauty Prize (London & New York: Chappell & Co., Ltd., & T. B. Harms Co., 1923), first edition.
Show Boat (London: Chappell & Co., Ltd., n.d.,) later printing.
The Beauty of Bath (London: Hopwood & Crew Ltd., 1906), first edition.
Sally (London & New York: Chappell & Co., Ltd., & T. B. Harms Co., 1921,) first edition.
The Three Musketeers (London & New York: Chappell & Co., Ltd., & T. B. Harms Co., 1932), later issue.
The Play Pictorial from The Beauty Prize.
Show Boat (New York: T. B. Harms Co., 1928), later issue.
£4,000
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
Bachelors Anonymous.
London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1973
Octavo. Original green boards, spine lettered gilt. With the Osbert Lancaster dust jacket. Edges lightly foxed; an excellent copy in the bright, crisp jacket.
First edition, first impression.
£125
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
Big Money.
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited c.1930
Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine in black. With the dust jacket. Cloth a little rubbed and spotted, spotting to edges of text block. An excellent copy in the second printing jacket that is rubbed, chipped,and torn with tape repairs to the verso.
Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Fourth printing.
£650
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
Bill the Conqueror: His Invasion of England in the Springtime.
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1924
Octavo. Original orange cloth, title to spine and front board green, decoration to front board green. With the dust jacket. Publishers’ ads to verso of jacket and flaps. Faint tanning to endpapers, back hinge cracked, still a very good copy in the edge-chipped jacket, with loss to the first half of the title at the head of the spine panel.
First US edition, first printing, published 20 February 1925.
£750
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
Brinkley Manor: A Novel About Jeeves.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1934
Octavo. Original red cloth, title to spine and front board in black, decoration to front board in black. With the pictorial dust jacket. Jacket design by James Montgomery Flagg. Two pages tanned (p. 192 and 193). A very good copy in the rubbed and tanned jacket with small closed tears.
First US edition. The second instalment in the Jeeves and Wooster series, published in the UK ten days before the first US edition under the title Right Ho, Jeeves.
£750
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
The Clicking of Cuthbert.
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1922
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and upper board in dark green. With the dust jacket. Contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Corners bumped, faint spotting to edges and light partial tanning to free endpapers. An excellent copy in the rubbed and nicked jacket
First edition, first impression. Rare in the dust jacket.
£5,250
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
Do Butlers Burgle Banks?
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1968
Octavo. Original green boards, spine lettered in silver. With the dust jacket. Inscription to front free endpaper, in the price clipped dust jacket with mild wear to extremites. A very good copy.
First English edition, first impression. Preceded by the American edition of the same year. A standalone comedic story, featuring the owner of Bond’s Bank whose circumstances render it prudent that someone burgles the bank before an inspection by the trustees. Luckily Horace Appleby, a gangster currently posing as his butler, is on hand to oblige, though he soon finds the seedier side of Chicago more restful than the English countryside.
£150
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
Eggs, Beans and Crumpets.
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1940
Octavo. Original orange cloth, spine lettered in black. With the dust jacket. Some fading to spine and along board edges, partial toning to endpapers but otherwise internally clean and fresh, a nice sound copy in a smart and vivid jacket with very minor rubbing to edges, small chips to corners, and some closed tears.
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 novelist Rosie M. Banks, with a variety of scrapes as he strives first to find a job and then to get it back when his boss Purkiss, quite justifiably, fires him. Following these, Wodehouse sparkles with Anselm Gets His Chance, featuring a young curate, a stolen stamp collection, and a secret engagement. The remaining stories feature one with Freddie Fitch-Fitch and three with Stanley Ukridge.
£2,250
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
The Eighteen-carat Kid and Other Stories.Edited and introduced by David A. Jasen.
New York: The Continuum Publishing Corporation, 1980
Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Top edge a little foxed; an excellent copy in the jacket with faintly sunned spine, and some creases and nicks to extremities.
First edition, first printing. A collection of early short stories and a novella, published five years after Wodehouse’s death.
£45
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
A Gentleman of Leisure.
London: Alston Rivers, Ltd., 1910
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt. Partial lending library bookplate to front pastedown. Spine browned, spine titles dulled, cloth rubbed with wear at the corners and spine ends, contents toned with scattered spotting. A good copy.
First UK edition, first impression. Originally published in the US a few months earlier under the title The Intrusion of Jimmy.
£750
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
The Girl in Blue.
London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1970
Octavo. Original dark blue boards, spine lettered in gilt. With the Osbert Lancaster dust jacket. Bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown. A fine copy in the slightly toned spine.
First edition, first impression.
£95
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
The Girl in Blue.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971
Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine silver. With the Osbert Lancaster dust jacket. Spine a little faded, a couple of marks to boards; an excellent copy in the lightly nicked and slightly creased jacket.
First US edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: “With best wishes, P. G. Wodehouse. March 13, 1971.” It was first published in the UK the preceding year.
£625
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
The Gold Bat.Containing Eight Full-Page Illustrations by T. M. R. Whitwell.
London: Adam & Charles Black, 1904
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and upperboard in black, blue, and yellow. Prize bookplate. Spine faded, binding a little rubbed with a few small marks to the lower board and a small bump to the upper board, contents spotted.
First edition, first impression.
£2,000
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
Ice in the Bedroom.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1961
Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine gilt, publisher’s device to rear board in blind.. With the dust jacket. Edges, prelims, and endmatter lightly foxed, small stain to front pastedown. An excellent copy in an excellent jacket with light foxing to rear panel and flaps, slightly faded spine, and a few small nicks to spine ends and rear panel.
First UK edition, first impression, published in October 1961. Preceeded by the US edition published by Simon and Schuster, New York, in February the same year.
£125
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
If I Were You.
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1931
Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles and decoration in black. With the dust jacket. An exceptionally bright copy in the nicked dust jacket with a single small chip on the lower panel.
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.
£2,500
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
The Intrusion of Jimmy.
New York: W. J. Watt, 1910
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt, pictorial decoration to front board in grey and yellow and with a colour paste-on. Colour frontispiece with tissue-guard. Modern bookplate to front pastedown and neat contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper. Top edge dusty, spine a little tanned, two small light dampstains to initial leaves and recto of frontispiece, endpapers faintly foxed. A very good copy.
First edition, first printing, preceding the first UK edition, which was published under the title A G entleman of Leisure in the same year.
£675
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
Jill the Reckless.
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1921
Octavo. Origilal blue cloth, titles to spine and front board in black, ruling to front board and publisher’s device to rear board in black. A few small wormholes to spine and front board, two of which carry on through the gutter and bottom margin of the first 30 or so leaves, boards rubbed and faintly marked, mild cockling to rolled spine, crease to top corner of front board, bottom corners of boards fraying, endleaves and edges of text block a little foxed. A very good copy.
First UK edition, first impression. Jill the Reckless was originally published in the US the preceding year. Very uncommon.
£500
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
The Luck of the Bodkins.
Herbert Jenkins Limited, London, 1935
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and upper board in black. With the pictorial dust jacket. Very mild partial browning to endpapers, spine a touch rolled, but a sparkling copy in a very lightly chipped and frayed dust jacket, a little rubbed at the folds and with a few nicks and scuffs. Notwithstanding all this a very bright copy.
First edition, first impression, first issue binding – scarlet cloth black lettering. First state dust jacket listing 29 titles on the front flap.
£2,000
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
Money in the Bank.
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1946
Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine and front board in black. With the pictorial dust jacket. Contemporary bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown. Spotting to top and fore edges of text block, light cockling to top edges of boards. A very good copy in a price-clipped jacket with two tiny short closed tears and some spotting to verso but recto bright and largely unfaded.
First UK edition, first impression, first issue. Originally published in the US in 1942.
£175
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
Much Obliged, Jeeves.
London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1971
Octavo. Original blue boards, spine lettered gilt, cream endpapers. With the Osbert Lancaster dust jacket. Bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown. Head of spine slightly bumped, a little spotting to edges; an excellent copy in the bright, price-clipped, jacket.
First edition, first impression.
£125
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
Mulliner Omnibus.
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1935
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and upper board in brown, green top-stain. With the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece. Lightly rubbed at extremities, spine toned, faint spotting to endpapers. An excellent copy in the rubbed and creased jacket with closed tears repaired to the verso.
First omnibus edition, first impression.
£1,250
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin.
London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1972
Octavo. Original green boards, spine lettered gilt. With Osbert Lancaster dust jacket. Edges slightly foxed; an excellent copy in the bright, unclipped jacket.
First edition, first impression.
£125
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
Performing Flea.A self-portrait in letters. With an introduction and additional notes by W. Townend.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1953
Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered gilt, facsimile Wodehouse signature to front board gilt. With the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Spine faded and rolled, small white stain to head of front board, mild foxing to edges. A very good copy in the unclipped jacket with minor loss to spine ends and head of front panel, and small chips and creasing to extremities.
First edition, first impression.
£75
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
Ring For Jeeves.
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1953
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and publisher’s device to rear board in black. With the pictorial dust jacket. Contemporary Australian bookseller’s ink stamp to front free pastedown. Slight spotting to edges of text block and occasionally to upper margins. An excellent copy in a rubbed and lightly chipped price-clipped jacket with very faint dampstaining to edges.
First edition, first impression, of the sixth Jeeves novel, preceding the US edition which was published in 1954 under the title The Return of Jeeves.
£225
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
Service with a Smile.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1962
Octavo. Original red boards, spine lettered in gilt, publisher’s device on the rear board in blind. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in a strikingly bright jacket.
First UK edition, first impression. The US edition was published the preceding year.
£150
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
The Small Bachelor.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and upper board in black. Spine rolled and toned, cloth rubbed with some light marks, endpapers tanned, contents toned and spotted, occasional pencil underlining. A very good copy.
First edition, first impression.
£675
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
Summer Moonshine.
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1938
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and upper board in black, red top-stain. With the dust jacket. Top-stain faded, spine a little rolled. An excellent copy in the jacket that is rubbed and nicked at the extremities, a closed tear to the spine panel, and a small chip to the lower panel.
First UK edition, first impression. Originally published in the US in the previous year.
£750
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
Sunset at Blandings.With Notes and Appendices by Richard Usborne. Illustrations by Ionicus.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1977
Octavo. Original blue boards, spine lettered gilt, illustrated endpapers. With the dust jacket. A little scattered foxing to top edge; an excellent copy in the unclipped jacket with slightly sunned spine.
First edition, first impression of Wodehouse’s final, unfinished novel.
£75
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
Sunset at Blandings.With Notes and Appendices by Richard Usborne. Illustrations by Ionicus.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1977
Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt, illustrated endpapers. With the dust jacket. A touch of foxing to top edge; an excellent copy in the unclipped jacket with a very slightly sunned spine.
First edition, first impression of Wodehouse’s final, unfinished novel.
£125
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
The Swoop! And other stories.
New York: The Seabury Press, 1979
Octavo. Original pale blue boards, spine lettered gilt. With the dust jacket. Edges foxed; an excellent copy in the bright, slightly creased jacket with some nicks to extremities.
First edition thus, first printing. A compilation of previously uncollected stories, several of which had been published elsewhere, such as The Swoop (1909) and some stories from Tales of St. Austin’s (1903) and The Man Upstairs (1914).
£45
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
The Swoop! Or, How Clarence Saved England.A Tale of the Great Invasion.
London: Alston Rivers, Limited, 1909
Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers, black and white on a red ground, titles to backstrip in black. Housed in a black quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Illustrated by C. Harrison. Small ownership signature to front free endpaper, spine very lightly cocked, wrappers a little tanned, slightly rubbed and very lightly creased and chipped at corners, neat closed split at the base of the backstrip where it meets the front wrapper. These minor faults notwithstanding a truly exceptional copy of a fragile little publication designed to be sold cheaply to commuters.
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.
£8,500
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
Tales of St Austin’s.
London: Adam & Charles Black, 1903
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine in black, blue and gilt, titles to front cover in black, blue and yellow. Containing twelve full-page illustrations by T. M. R. Whitewell, R. Noel Pocock, and B. F. Skinner. Spine faded and a little marked, small split to top of front hinge, front joint cracked and repaired, spotting to half title and sporadically to other pages.
First edition, first impression, first issue with unclosed quotation marks on the title page.
£1,500
JASEN, David. A.
The Theatre of P.G. Wodehouse.
London: B. T. Batsford, 1979
Quarto. Original purple boards, spine lettered in gilt. With the jacket. Monochrome and colour photographs throughout. Boards slightly bowed, top edge spotted; a good copy in the price-clipped jacket that has a faded spine and a couple of tiny nicks to the extremities.
First edition, first impression. Once as well known for his work in the theatre as he was for his novels, Wodehouse contributed lyrics or adapted the translations to nearly 50 Broadway and London shows. This book celebrates a half-forgotten aspect of his career, with over 100 colour and black and white illustrations taken from contemporary programmes, posters and photographs.
£45
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
Ukridge.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1924
Octavo. Original green cloth with titles and pictorial design in dark green. With the pictorial dust jacket. Light spotting to text block edges. An excellent copy in a bright jacket with small chips to head of spine panel and corners with neat internal repairs.
First edition, first impression, with the list of 13 titles on the verso of the half-title. From the library of renowned Wodehousiana collector James H. Heineman (1917–1994), with his bookplate to the front pastedown. Scarce in the jacket.
£4,000
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
Uncle Dynamite.
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited,
Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine and front board in black. With the pictorial dust jacket. Light spotting to edges of text block. A bright copy in excellent condition in a slightly rubbed price-clipped jacket with a few tiny chips.
First edition, first impression. The second Uncle Fred novel, in which he assumes the identity of Major Brabazon-Plank to rescue his nephew from a certain fall from grace, having accidentally destroyed two of his future father-in-law’s most coveted works of art.
£375
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
Wodehouse Nuggets.Selected by Richard Usborne.
London: Hutchinson, 1983
Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Drawings by Martin Williams. Spine slightly rolled, top edge a little foxed; an excellent copy in the jacket with sunned spine.
First edition, first impression. A collection of aphorisms and witty extracts from Wodehouse’s novels and short stories.
£45
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
The World of Blandings.
London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1976
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Top edge slightly foxed, internally fine; an excellent copy in the jacket with sunned spine.
First collected edition, first impression. A collection of five stories set at Blanding’s Castle.
£125
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
The World of Psmith.
London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1974
Octavo. Original green boards, titles to spine white. With the dust jacket. A little scattered foxing to top edge; an excellent copy in the bright jacket.
First collected edition, first impression. The complete collection of Psmith and Comrade Mike Jackson.
£125
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
The World of Ukridge.
London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1975
Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. Top edge and endpapers very lightly foxed. An excellent copy in a jacket with slightly rubbed and nicked extremities.
First collected edition, first impression. The complete collection of Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge’s whole nefarious career, comprising 19 short stories.
£75