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Wodehouse, P.G.. Bill the Conqueror. George H. Doran Company, New York, 1924.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. Yellow cloth with green lettering. 1st American edition with publisher's slug on copyright page. 323pp. Spine bit sunned. Both inner hinges cracked, but holding. Good.
Seller: Kevin T. Ransom- Bookseller, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
p. g. wodehouse. bill the conqueror. george h. doran, new york, 1924.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Orange with dark green letters and design on spine and cover.Qon bottom of copyright page, publishers seal on title page and copyright page. No interior marks. Webbing showing inside front cover. Spine and front sun darkened. Some rubbing but no wear.
Seller: broken wing books, blaine, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a hardcover first American edition with the Doran logo, and the "Q", orange cloth binding, no DJ. VG, unmarked copy. Photo on request.
Seller: Reader's Corner, Inc., Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: G+ WITHOUT D.J. BOOK HAS EXTENSIVE SILVERFISH DAMAGE WHICH INCLUDES A COUPLE OF TINY HOLES TO THE SPINE AND A TRACE ALONG THE FRONT FORE-EDGE OF THE UPPER COVER, AND LIGHT WEAR AT THE SPINE ENDS, BUT OTHERWISE A VERY NICE CLEAN AND TIGHT COPY OF THIS CHEAPLY PRODUCED BOOK WITH HINGES EXPERTLY REPAIRED. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.
Seller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS, BURLINGTON, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First American edition. Hardcover. Good condition (no dust jacket). Top of spine frayed, bottom of spine rubbed, corners bumped. Spine somewhat sun-faded. Former owner's ink name on the flyleaf. Internally clean and tight.
Seller: Waverly & Rugby Books, Pinehurst, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$39.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: New York: George H. Doran, 1924. First American edition [1924], with the publisher's symbol on the copyright page. Good copy in light orange cloth printed in green, no dustjacket. Covers lightly soiled with some finger smudges, very light rubbing to corners and spine ends, good hinges, firm text block, small name stamp and label on front pastedown, pages clean and otherwise unmarked. Internally very good. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Seller: Resource Books, LLC, East Granby, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tight, no names, clean text. Probably 1st edition. very good, no dj, orange cloth w/ general edgewear, dulled spine 323 pgs
Seller: Gil's Book Loft, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P. G.. Bill the Conqueror. George H. Doran, New York, 1924.
Price: US$48.00 + shipping
Description: Good+, rear hinge crack, some wear on spine foot
Seller: T. A. Borden Books, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P.G.. BILL THE CONQUEROR. New York: George H. Doran, (1924), 1924.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. First American edition.8vo., pp. 323, mustard cloth with green lettering, A very good copy [rear hinge starting but tight] without dustwrapper. McIlvaine A33(b), Jasen 34a.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 19.5 x 12.5 cm. 12mo. 323pp. Orange cloth. Fading and edgewear to the spine. First edition with publisher's seal on title and copyright page.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
P. G. Wodehouse. Bill The Conqueror. George H. Doran Company, New York, 1924.
Price: US$105.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Orange cloth over boards with Title, author, and border on front cover. Title, device, author, and publisher on spine. Minor shelf wear to edges, darkending to spine. Pages lightly toned, but clean and clear. Overall, solid text block.
Seller: John and Tabitha's Kerriosity Bookshop, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P.G.. Bill the Conqueror.. NY. George H. Doran. 1924 (Colophon)., 1924.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. VG- in clean orange cloth printed in green; spine faded and dulled. First Edition.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P.G.. Bill the Conqueror.. NY. George H. Doran. 1924., 1924.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition( With the Doran colophon and dated 1924 with --Q-- at the bottom of the copyright page). VG+/VG- in bright orange cloth stamped in green with green lettering and a green border of ivy along the edges of the front panel; in the scarce d/w which is missing bottom 3" of the spine and has some soiling to the rear spine and some chipping to the bottom edge. First Edition( With the Doran colophon and dated 1924 with --Q-- at the bottom of the copyright page).
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P.G.. Bill The Conqueror. New York: George H. Doran, 1924, 1924.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. Hinges mended; very good in a dust jacket with some small chips. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P.G.. Bill The Conqueror. New York: George H. Doran, 1924, 1924.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. Small ownership label; hinges mended; very good in a dull dust jacket with numerous small chips. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P. G.. Bill the Conqueror. George H. Doran Co, New York, 1924.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Humorous London set romance novel. Near Fine bright copy (but with front and rear inner cracked hinges neatly and unnoticeably repaired) in Very Good attractive dustjacket, small chips at top spine end and top front flap corner, few small nicks and wear.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P. G.. Bill the Conqueror. George H. Doran Co, New York, 1924.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Humorous London set romance novel. Near Fine bright copy (but with rear inner hinge cracked and neatly repaired - now a little tight) in Very Good attractive dustjacket, small chips at top spine end and top front flap corner, some shallow loss at spine ends, dime sized chip at top front panel mended back in place with archival tape at verso, two inch closed tear at top rear panel.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P. G.. Bill the Conqueror. George H. Doran Co, New York, 1924.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Humorous London set romance novel. Very Good, top spine end rubbed, in nearly Very Good dustjacket, chipped at spine ends and flap corners.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P. G.. Bill the Conqueror. George H. Doran Co, New York, 1924.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Humorous London set romance novel. Very Good, some cracking to inner hinges (as is common for this title) in Very Good attractive dustjacket, some mild soiling as expected, tiny chips at spine ends, modest shelf wear.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P.G.. Bill the Conqueror. George H. Doran, NY, 1924.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Bound in bright orange cloth, stamped in green in the original dust jacket. This is the true first edition with all of the points -- colophon on copyright page and the "Q" at the bottom of the page -- and with the $2.00 price at the bottom of the spine of the dust jacket. Endpapers professionally restored and book tightened. The dust jacket is bright and whole -- the only flaw is chipping to spine ends of dust jacket. Still, a most desirable first edition of this early Wodehouse title.
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P.G.. Bill The Conqueror. New York: George H. Doran, 1924, 1924.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. Aside from a small stain along the bottom edge of some pages, a very good copy in a dust jacket with minor wear and tear. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P.G.. Bill the Conqueror.. New York. George H. Doran Company. 1924., 1924.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition with the Doran colophon and 1924 on the copyright page. With "--Q--" at the bottom of the copyright page as required. A handsome copy in woven orange cloth stamped brightly in green on the front boards and the spine. With a green border of ivy on the front boards. With a touch of dampstain and light leeching of color to the front and rear bottom corners and at the top edge of the rear panel. Hinges tender with front hinge reglued. In an attractive pictorial dustjacket featuring a stylish couple pausing beneath a rose trellis. With the original price of $2.00 net at the bottom of the dustjacket spine. The spine is darkened and there is evidence of dampstain at the corners and along the top of the spine jacket. First Edition with the Doran colophon and 1924 on the copyright page. With "--Q--" at the bottom of the copyright page as required.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1218.62 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 323. Original yellow boards, lettered in black to front panel and spine. Slight age-toning to text block, but an all but fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, light wear and chipping to spine ends, rear panel just a little marked. First US edition, preceded by its UK counterpart of the same year. Part of the plot of Bill The Conqueror was used for the book of the Kern-Bolton-Wodehouse musical of the same year, Sitting Pretty, which opened in New York in April, 1924 -- six months before the book's publication, and a month before its serialisation began in the Saturday Evening Post. An extremely attractive copy of a book rarely seen in such nice condition. McIlvaine A33b
Seller: Neil Pearson Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 323 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 14") bound in original publisher's organge cloth with green lettering to spine and cover with decorative ruled edge in original pictorial jacket. (McIlvaine A33b) First edition. Bill the Conqueror (subtitled His Invasion of England in the Springtime) is a novel by P.G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 13 November 1924 by Methuen & Co, London, and in the United States on 20 February 1925 by George H. Doran, New York, the story having previously been serialized in The Saturday Evening Post from 24 May to 12 July 1924. The cast includes the recurring characters Sir George Pyke (later Lord Tilbury), publishing magnate and founder of the Mammoth Publishing Company (who would later visit Blandings Castle in Heavy Weather (1933)), and his subordinate Percy Pilbeam. Sir George was disappointed in his son, he was not a chip off the old block and lacked the aggressive drive required of a business tycoon. So why not marry him off to Felicia she has plenty of spark and could manage any man, all was going well until the arrival from New York of Bill West. Condition: Spine lightly faded, fore-edge with a few spots, end-papers toned, front free endpaper with previous owner's inscription erased. Jacket in the original dust jacket with light foxing to front panel, edges professionally restored.
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.