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1933 Burt Press stated 1st edition, orange cloth hardcover, unmarked and solid but covers have wear and old water staining, some cracking to front cover hinge, fair 1st edition reading copy. We take great pride in accurately describing the condition of our books and media, ship within 48 hours, and offer a 100% money back guarantee. Customers purchasing more than one item from us may be entitled to a shipping discount.

London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1978. 1st ed. thus. Near Fine. small octavo. hardback with dust jacket 256pp., Short stories originally published in 1917. Nice copy in like price-clipped dust jacket. This edition has a new preface by Wodehouse. Uncommon title

A.L. Burt Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Rubbing and toning overall, soiling, a dampstain to the rear board, a lean, yellowing to the pages, bumps and fraying to the corms and spine ends Photos upon request. International shipping billed at cost.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 283 pages .

New York & Chicago: A. L. Burt Company. Good. No Jacket Ex-Library First US Edition. Very, Very Scarce. McIlvaine A 21b. Copyright page has been drawn on by a child in pencil. Cloth . Cloth. 1933.

New York: A.L. Burt, 1933. 8vp, pp. 283. Original orange boards, lettered in black to spine. Illustrated dustwrappers. Very slightly cocked, offsetting to rear endpaper, two small and faded contemporary ownership signatures to front pastedown and ffep., but a near fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper with just a little darkening to rear panel, and with the orange wording on spine very faded. Dustwrapper illustration by Harry Beckhoff. First US edition, first issue. Includes three stories not in the UK edition: Absent Treatment, Rallying Round Old George and Doing Clarence A Bit Of Good. Rare: we can find no appearance of the UK edition of this title at auction since 2000 (Christies London, 18 February 2000, Lot 36). McIlvaine A21b

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1917 A good copy of the rare 1st edition, which marks the first appearance of Bertie Wooster. In the original light red cloth binding which has been expertly rebacked and is sound and tight. The cloth on the spine is faded and browned. The boards have some light marking (more obvious on the back board) with some scuffing. Internally new endpapers have been added. Contents are complete as per McIlvaine A21a. There is persistent spotting, particularly to page edges and margins. Spotting visible at the foredge. The publisher's listing at the rear is very browned. Please enquire if you would like to see additional images.

London: Methuen & Co,, 1917. The first appearance of Bertie and Jeeves First edition, first impression, of this collection of 13 short stories. The second, "Extricating Young Gussie", introduces the author's best-known characters: a young Englishman named Bertie (his surname is not mentioned) is attended by a valet named Jeeves and beset by the monstrous Aunt Agatha, who sends them to New York on an errand. Years later, Wodehouse wrote in The World of Jeeves: "I blush to think of the offhand way I treated him at our first encounter". The stories were published in various English and American magazines, including The Strand Magazine, The Red Book Magazine, and The Saturday Evening Post. The American edition of the collection was published in 1933 by A. L. Burt and Co in New York, with a slightly different selection of contents. Octavo. With 16 pp. of publisher's advertisements at rear dated "4/10/16" as per McIvaine. Original light red cloth, titles to spine and front cover in black. Ownership inscription "E. H. Platts" at head of front pastedown. Spine and extremities sunned, spine ends frayed, a few light marks to sides, inner hinges repaired, intermittent light foxing. A very good copy. McIlvaine A21a.