Signed first printing of the first Wodehouse novel to be published in the US before the UK, in striking pictorial cloth.
Very good minus.
Price: $3,000.00
"A man's first crime is, as a rule, a shockingly amateurish affair."
A version of this novel, a romantic comedy of theatre and crime, first appeared in shorter form as "The Gem Collector" in Ainslee's Magazine; this true first edition was subsequently issued in 1910, followed later that same year in the UK as A GENTLEMAN OF LEISURE. An attractive copy of this early Wodehouse.
Read more: Jasen, A Bibliography and and Reader's Guide to the First Editions of P.G. Wodehouse, 13.
First edition. New York: W. J. Watt & Company, May 1910. 7.25'' x 5''. Original gilt-lettered olive-green and yellow pictorial cloth, with circular pictorial paste-on. 314 pages. Inscribed by Wodehouse "with the author's compliments / P.G. Wodehouse" on front free endpaper. Color lithographed frontispiece and four black and white plates. Cloth a bit worn. Spine sunned and titles dulled. Front hinge starting, occasional faint foxing.
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