Wodehouse Signed (5 results)

Paper. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. An Original Signed Letter by Thomas Wodehouse Legh, 2nd Baron Newton. Letter dated 1910. Thomas Wodehouse Legh, 2nd Baron Newton 1857 - 1942 was a British diplomat and Conservative politician who served as Paymaster-General during the First World War. Size is 175mm x 115mm. Condition is very good. Light folding crease. More images can be taken upon request. Ref16652. Signed by Author(s).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good ++. First Edition. 1st Edition 1960. Signed card tipped into endpaper. Second state. The eighth Jeeves novels, following yet another adventure of Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves as they visit Wooster's Aunt Dahlia at Brinkley Court. Book is very good++ and in bright condition. Contents good. The complete wrapper is very good+ and bright. Edges lightly rubbed. Ref19369/19412. Signed by Author(s).

Paper. Condition: Good. First Edition. An Original Hand Written Letter Signed by John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley to Sir Henry Maine. Dated 1885. Letter is to Sir Henry Maine discussing briefly arbitration in Calcutta. John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley 1826-1902, known as the Lord Wodehouse from 1846 to 1866, was a British Liberal politician. He held office in every Liberal administration from 1852 to 1895, notably as Secretary of State for the Colonies and as Foreign Secretary. Size is 178mm x 114mm. Condition is good. Light folding creases. .More images can be taken upon request. Ref17705. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 346 pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5") bound in original publisher's pea-green cloth stamped in dark green in original illustrated jacket. $2 price on jacket spine. Letter signed by author laid in. (McIlvaine A35b) First American edition.br>Letter dated January 30, 1931 from his printed letterhead, 1005 Benedict Canyon Drive, Beverly Hills to the recipient Miss Wynne-Roberts, offering here his autograph to the recipientSam the Sudden is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 15 October 1925 by Methuen, London, and in the United States on 6 November 1925 by George H. Doran, New York, under the title Sam in the Suburbs. The story had previously been serialized under that title in the Saturday Evening Post from 13 June to 18 July 1925.The cast includes the recurring character Lord Tilbury, publishing magnate and founder of the Mammoth Publishing Company, who had appeared in Wodehouse's novel of the previous year, Bill the Conqueror, and who would later visit Blandings Castle in Heavy Weather (1933). It also introduced the criminals Alexander "Chimp" Twist, Dora "Dolly" Molloy and Thomas "Soapy" Molloy, who reappeared in Money for Nothing (1928), Money in the Bank (1946), and Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin (1972).Condition: Minor sunning at head of spine; mild toning to endpapers. Jacket spine sunned, a few chips, a few tape repairs from reverse, spine head chipped affecting lettering, one inch by one inch chipped at front heal edge, closed edge tears else better than very good in a good to very good jacket. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 314 pages with color lithographic frontispiece and 4 black and white illustrations by Will Grefé. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial black cloth stamped in grey and yellow, lettered in gilt, with applied chromolithographic illustration housed in custom cloth clamshell box. Inscribed in bold hand by author. (McIlvaine A13a) First edition. A Gentleman of Leisure is a novel by P G Wodehouse. The basic plot first appeared in a novella, The Gem Collector, in the December 1909 issue of Ainslee's Magazine. It was substantially revised and expanded for publication as a book under the title The Intrusion of Jimmy by Tit-Bits between 11 June and 10 September before being published as A Gentleman of Leisure by Alston Rivers Ltd, London, on 15 November 1910. There are minor textual differences between the American and British editions of the book. A Gentleman of Leisure was adapted for the stage in 1911 and has twice been filmed, in 1915 and 1923. Condition: Inscribed in bold hand by author: "To Miss Margaret Fraser with the author's compliments / P.G. Wodehouse / May 16, 1910." Light rubbing, vertical crease along spine top outside corner of upper cover bumped. Clamshell enclosure lightly soiled and faded else very good to fine in a very good enclosure. Inscribed by Author(s).