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Wodehouse, P.G.. A PREFECT'S UNCLE. Adam & Charles Black, London, 1903.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing, first issue of this uncommon early Wodehouse, a school story with much trouble-making and cricket drama. 7.25'' x 5''. Original red pictorial cloth boards, rebacked in red cloth. 264 pages. Eight illustrations (including frontispiece) by R. Noel Pocock. Creasing and tape repair to verso of illustration facing page 114. No damage to other illustrations. Sunning and edgewear to boards. Light foxing and occasional creasing throughout.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE P. G.. A Prefect's Uncle.. London: Adam & Charles Black, 1903.
Price: US$833.80 + shipping
Description: First edition, first issue. Published in September 1903 at 3s 6d. pp. [viii],264. Frontispiece & seven plates, three of which have been supplied from another copy & are a little 'whiter' than the other plates (they are not however facsimiles). The publisher's red cloth, gilt, with pictorial designs to front & spine. Faint 'ring' mark to front board, the rear board with some light marking/staining. Neat contemporary MS presentation inscription on verso of fep. dated November 1903. Vg. [McIlvaine A2a; Jasen 2; CBEL IV, 778]
Seller: Colin Page Books, Storrington, United Kingdom
Wodehouse, P. G.. A Prefect's Uncle 1st issue. Adam & Charles Black, London,,, 1903.
Price: US$1154.49 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition First Issue 8vo (185 x 120mm). Half title, 8 half tone plates by R. Noel Pocock, Original red pictorial cloth, spine lettered in gilt head of spine cloth repaired, some fraying to foot of spine with loss of a few letters, spine a little faded, some light staining to covers, corners slightly bumped, upper joint joints splitting, old bookplate unobtrusively removed from the front pastedown. First issue, without the publisher's advertisements at the end. The author's second novel. RARE. McIlvaine A2a.
Seller: Finecopy, Westbury, WILTS, United Kingdom
WODEHOUSE, P.G.. A Prefect's Uncle.. London Adam & Charles Black, 1903.
Price: US$1815.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, first issue of the author's second book (with advertisement for The Pothunters on verso of half-title, 1903 date on title and no further advertisements); 8vo; publisher's device to title, frontispiece and 7 plates by R. Noel Pocock, publisher's pictorial red cloth printed in blue, black and cream, titles to spine gilt, small nail hole to rear board effecting the final few margins, ownership inscription to front free endpaper, spine a little cocked and with a short split to the front joint, generally somewhat rubbed and faded. Very good. The author's uncommon second book, here in the earliest issue. McIlvaine A2a.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Wodehouse, P.G.. A Prefect's Uncle.. London. A & C Black. 1903., 1903.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition with the date of 1903 on the title page. Later issue with 8 pages of ads bound in at the rear of the bookÐÐAdam and Charles Black's "Beautiful Books for Boys and Girls." A strikingly handsome copy of this scarce 1903 first edition. With 8 full-page black and white illustrations by Noel Pocock mostly featuring cricket scenes from the novel. Wodehouse's second novel continues the tradition of "The Pot-Hunters" stressing the importance of the venerable game of cricket in the lives of English schoolboys. A very handsome copy in clean, finely woven pictorial red cloth. Splendid depiction of a Prefect and an English schoolboy with his luggage arriving at school on the front cover. Drawing of a gentleman batting at cricket on the spine. With 8 pages of ads for Adam and Charles Black's children's books bound in at the rear of the book. With a touch of fading to the top right-hand corner of the front boards and the bottom edge of the rear panel. The text is clean thoughout without any foxing or marks whatsoever.Overall, a very handsome, collectible copy of this Wodehouse scarcity. First Edition with the date of 1903 on the title page. Later issue with 8 pages of ads bound in at the rear of the bookÐÐAdam and Charles Black's "Beautiful Books for Boys and Girls." A strikingly handsome copy of this scarce 1903 first edition.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P. G.. A Prefect's Uncle.. London: Adam & Charles Black, 1903, 1903.
Price: US$3206.90 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, first issue, of the author's uncommon second book, preceded only by The Pothunters (1902). This copy has the correct points for the first issue, with the half-title verso listing The Pothunters only, the title page dated 1903, and no publisher's advertisements at the rear. McIlvaine A2a. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in black, blue, gilt, and pink. Frontispiece and 7 plates, all by R. Noel Pocock. Partially erased ownership signature to half-title. Spine lightly sunned and bumped, cloth marked and rubbed, still bright, one gathering slightly proud, scattered foxing to contents. A very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom