Jeeves by Wodehouse, Signed (7 results)

Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. New York: Wodecraft Press, 1994. First Edition. Signed by Cannon and Eckhardt without inscriptions at title page. Octavo; 86pp. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket; black cloth boards stamped in gilt. Mild rubbing to edges of unclipped dust jacket. Boards show light shelfwear; slightly bowed at fore-edge; binding sound; light spotting to top edge of text block, else unmarked; Very Good or better. A Wodehouse/Lovecraft pastiche with a a nod to Doyle in the final story.

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).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (1971). 8vo. 1st edition. SIGNED by Wodehouse. Slightest lean to spine. Slight toning to textblock edges with small, dark spot of soiling to top edge. Slightest darkening along spine of barely rubbed cloth covered boards with slightest bumping and wear to forecorners. Creasing and slight soiling to board spine tail end. Light toning along spine and edges of dust jacket verso. Slightest toning along spine and fore edges of gently rubbed d.j. with light scraping and bumping to edges, forecorners, and spine ends. 2 tiny spots of soiling to bottom 1/4 of d.j. Slight scraping and marking to d.j. front fore edge, and crease to d.j. rear panel along top 1/2 of fore edge. Slight creasing with soiling to d.j. front panel top edge and small, faint 'v' shaped scratch just below edge. D.j. covered in removeable plastic covering by previous owner. Slight creasing to top corner of d.j. flaps. VG/VG. Author.

FIRST EDITION, DATED & SIGNED IN YEAR OF PUBLICATION BY AUTHOR, ALSO WITH A HOLOGRAPH QUOTE INITIATED BY HIM, octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 189pp, VG (light bruising to extrems, light fading/discolouration to spine, light soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, various ex-libris markings to front & rear eps, moderate foxing to eps & prelims/terminals).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Thus. Fine Book & Near Fine Jacket, clipped, else Fine, Signed, First Edition Thus UK First Print, in protective cover. Signed by Author(s).

First US edition, inscribed by the author soon after publication on 28 September, "With the author's compliments P. G. Wodehouse Oct. 1923". We have traced no inscribed copies in auction records; copies in the jacket are also rare. This, the second Jeeves book, was the debut Jeeves publication in America. The equivalent British edition, organized as a series of related episodes rather than a collection of short stories, was published earlier the same year as The Inimitable Jeeves. McIlvaine A30b. Octavo. Original orange cloth, spine and front cover lettered in black, some leaves unopened. With dust jacket. Housed in a custom red cloth slipcase. Bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown. Spine ends bumped, tiny burn-spot to front cover, contents clean; jacket bright, edges a little rubbed and nicked, a couple of closed tears, two neatly repaired, unclipped: a near-fine copy in the very good, attractive jacket.

First US edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his biographer and bibliographer Jasen, "To David, all the best from Plum. P. G. Wodehouse". Only Wodehouse's close friends and family knew him as "Plum". David A. Jasen (1937-2022) was the dedicatee of Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963). A ragtime scholar and performer, he shared a passion for music with Wodehouse, a famed musical lyricist. The third collection of Jeeves short stories includes "Jeeves Takes Charge", which chronicles the arrival of the famous butler into Bertie Wooster's life. The book was published in Britain two years prior. Jasen 35a; McIlvaine A34b. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine and front cover lettered and stamped in orange. Remnants of book label on front pastedown. Spine ends bumped, minor wear to corners: a very good copy.