A Bibliography and Reader's Guide to the First Editions of P. G. Wodehouse
by David Alan Jasen (1937-2022)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0208010300
- ISBN 13
- 9780208010308
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
[vi]+290 pages with frontispiece and indices. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in origina publisher's purple cloth with gilt lettering to spine in origina pictorial jacket. First edition.
This volume provides identifcation of Wodehouse first editions for collectors and bibliographiers. It also lists and briefy charaterizes persons and places in Wodehouse novels and stories. The indices will help the reader to follow charters through the many stories in which they appear.
Condition: Points gently rubbed. Jacket with edge wear and chips, spine ends chipped, closed tear with crease at front heal panel, lightly soiled else very good in like jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- L1364
- Title
- A Bibliography and Reader's Guide to the First Editions of P. G. Wodehouse
- Author
- David Alan Jasen (1937-2022)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0208010300
- ISBN 13
- 9780208010308
- Publisher
- Archon Books
- Place of Publication
- Hamden, CT
- Date Published
- 1970
- Pages
- [vi]+290 pages with frontispiece and indices.
- Size
- Royal octavo
- Keywords
- Bibliography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
About the Seller
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