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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 .

A. L. Burt Company. A. L. Burt Company. Condition: Near Fine. No jacket. First edition. Bright orange cloth with black lettering. Top edge orange. Spine slightly sunned. Ex-Library book. Stamp for Houston-Tuttle Book Co on inside front free end page. . Fine. Hardcover. 1933.

First US Edition. Very, Very Scarce. McIlvaine A 21b. Copyright page has been drawn on by a child in pencil.

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,, 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.