Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
P. G. Wodehouse. Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, New York, 1940.
Price: US$15.75 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Green cloth over boards, no dust jacket. Illustration on front cover and spine. Author, title, and publisher on spine. Significant rubbing and shelf wear including some fraying at edges and corners. Deckled long fore edge, rough cut bottom edge, stained top edge. Inerior lightly toned with clean and clear text. Some spots to margins.
Seller: John and Tabitha's Kerriosity Bookshop, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P. G.. Eggs, Beans and Crumpets. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., New York, 1940.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First U.S. edition hardcover, bound in green cloth, with dark green illustration on front cover, and dark green lettering and illustration on spine, is in Fair+ condition, having some fading to covers and spine, and slight wear overall to covers; corners bumped and worn; slight fraying to top and bottom spine; missing first free endpaper (perhaps removed by owner because of gift inscription); part of signature in ink on first fixed endpaper erased; some foxing to both endpaper sections; evidence of some kind of pasted on bookplate or other item in both endpaper sections as well. Book has the deckled edges often seen at the time. Fiction. Novel. British. Humor. Classics. DB.
Seller: Counterpane Books, Frazier Park, CA, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P. G.. Eggs, Beans and Crumpets. Doubleday, Doran, New York, New York, 1940.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: 312 pages. Included is the golf story "The Scratch Man." Former owner address label on ffep, pastedown offset else clean copy. Covers protected in mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Antiquarian Golf, Pepperell, MA, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P. G.. Eggs, Beans and Crumpets. Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1940.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: About Fine first edition hardcover, green cloth boards, black lettering. Slightest wear to bottom of boards. No writing or marks, minor toning of end-papers. Tight and solid binding. An excellent reading copy. 312 pages. M02847
Seller: The Groaning Board, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P.G.. Eggs, Beans and Crumpets. Doubleday, Doran and Company, New York, 1940.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Ink gift inscription on flyleaf, some minor darkening to green cloth along spine otherwise very good. In FAIR ONLY dust jacket due to water staining along and adjacent to spine and some edge wear including shallow chips and tears and abrasions. While not for fussy collectors, this is a reasonably nice, presentable copy for the budget minded collector. Usual age-toning to paper. Collection of 13 short stories.
Seller: Aladdin Books, Fullerton, CA, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P. G.. EGGS, BEANS AND CRUMPETS. DOUBLEDAY DORAN, NEW YORK, 1940.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Reading copy only. Refurbished ex-library with clean new endpapers and the usual fingering of pages and soiling, along with a few discreet stamps. Covered with a facsimile jacket so presents well on the shelf. A collection of 13 short stories with the usual Wodehouse magical cast of characters.
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P. G.. EGGS, BEANS AND CRUMPETS. Doubleday, Doran & Co., NY, 1940.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [1st printing] 1940. Green cloth; 312 pps. Only most of front panel and inside dj flap remain of dj; tanning, spine and endpages; some wear at spine ends.
Seller: Books from the Crypt, N. Potomac, MD, U.S.A.
p. g. wodehouse. eggs, beans and crumpets. doubleday doran, new york, 1940.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Stated first edition, mint green with dark green letters and design, some smudging along edges. Jacket has chipping and loss of one inch of material at spine bottom.
Seller: broken wing books, blaine, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original publisher’s green cloth binding with multicolored illustrated dust wrapper. 5 ¾” x 8.” 312 pages, complete. A page in the front lists other books by P. G. Wodehouse. The back panel and back flap of the dust wrapper advertise books by other authors. Pages and covers of book are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Slight wear at the top and bottom of the book’s spine. Dust wrapper is clean and intact overall. Dust wrapper is tape-strengthened and has some chipping at the top edge of the front panel and the spine. Dust wrapper is not price-clipped. No remainder marks. A Very Good book in a Very Good dust wrapper. A collection of short stories as told by members of the Drones Club.
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P. G.. Eggs, Beans and Crumpets. Doubleday, Doran & Co, New York, 1940.
Price: US$66.95 + shipping
Description: Octavo. 312pp., bound in green pictorial cloth stamped in black, pictorial spine lettered in black, top edge yellow, previous owner's name. A very good copy in unclipped pictorial dust jacket with large chip to head, tiny chips and edge wear, rear panel with fading near head and a light dampstain to lower corner of jacket and flap. A short story collection containing four about Bingo Little, two Mulliner's and three very fine Ukridge's.
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P.G.. Eggs, Beans and Crumpets. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1940, 1940.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. Good in a price-clipped dust jacket. 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.. Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets. Doubleday Doran, 1940.
Price: US$121.54 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 8vo. 312. Previous owner's ink name on front flyleaf, else a very good copy in a dust jacket. The striking pictorial jacket has some loss. see pictures and is price clipped. The front panel is quite bright. First US edition. Edition/VG/VG. Shipped in a box, not a padded envelope
Seller: Trinity Books, Boyle, ROSCO, Ireland
Wodehouse, P.G.. EGGS, BEANS, AND CRUMPETS. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.,, 1940.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First U.S. edition, first printing. Minor soiling to the covers, extremities mildly rubbed, else very good plus in green pictorial cloth, lettered in dark green; in a new high quality full-color FACSIMILE of the original dust jacket. The U.S. edition contains thirteen stories, four more than the UK edition. Four stories about Bingo Little, two Mulliner's, three Ukridge's, and with the addition of three from LORD ELMSWORTH AND OTHERS (1937) and "Trouble Down at Tudsleigh."
Seller: BOOKFELLOWS Fine Books, ABAA, Sun City, AZ, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P. G. Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets. Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1940.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Very good plus with slight offsetting to endpapers and a touch of foxing to page edges, otherwise clean and tight. In a very good dust jacket ($2.00 price intact) with quarter-inch chip at top of spine, slight loss at bottom of spine corners, and some closed tears at the flap folds.
Seller: Magus Books of Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P.G.. EGGS, BEANS AND CRUMPETS. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.,, 1940.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First U.S. edition, first printing. Minor soiling to the covers, extremities mildly rubbed, else very good plus in green pictorial cloth, lettered in dark green; in a new high quality full-color FACSIMILE of the original dust jacket. The U.S. edition contains thirteen stories, four more than the UK edition. Four stories about Bingo Little, two Mulliner's, three Ukridge's, and with the addition of three from LORD ELMSWORTH AND OTHERS (1937) and "Trouble Down at Tudsleigh.
Seller: BOOKFELLOWS Fine Books, ABAA, Sun City, AZ, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P. G.. Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets. Doubleday Doran & Co. Crime Club, 1940.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo., pp.vii, 312. Previous owner's ink name on front flyleaf, endpapers quite foxed and browned (especially along the hinges), else a very good copy in a dust jacket. The striking pictorial jacket is slightly faded on the spine, with a few short edge tears. The front panel is quite bright. First American Edition/VG/VG. Shipped in a box, not a padded envelope.
Seller: Dubliners Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$155.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 312 pp. Original green cloth covers, bottom corners and spine ends a bit bumped. Covers slightly cocked. Small price written on front endpaper. Pictorial color DJ lightly soiled and rubbed w/ faint dampstains to rear panel. Wear and several short tears to edges; approx. 1 1/2" closed tear at top edge of rear panel. Contents nice.
Seller: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P. G.. Eggs, Beans And Crumpets. Doubleday, Doran, New York, 1940.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original green cloth. The dust jacket is bright and complete. There is some tape repair to the verso, mending some issues at the head of the spine and on to the top portion of the rear panel. There is some fraying to the heel of the spine. Still, a bright and solid copy. McIlvaine, A62B. Very Good / Very Good.
Seller: First Place Books - ABAA, ILAB, Walkersville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$245.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: EGGS, BEANS AND CRUMPETS by P.G. Wodehouse FIRST U.S. EDITION Published My 10,1940 Doubleday Printed at The Country Life Press, Garden City, New York 312 Pages. Dust-jacket Illustrated by Hal McIntoch Reference Heineman & Bensen AS62B; Jasen 61a A COLLECTION of rare items by the master of them all, P. G. Wodehouse. Here are 13 short stories with plenty of bad luck for almost everybody involved. Only Dr.Wodehouse (Litt. D. Cantab) can conceive such situations, and here he has exceeded himself. D. Stanley Featherstonehaugh, Ukridge is the misguided hero of several stories; Mr. Mulliner is present, as is Freddie Widgeon; and so are several new characters, priceless additions to the Wodehouse gallery.
Seller: Hayden & Fandetta Rare Books ABAA/ILAB, Horseshoe Bay, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-312, original green cloth, front and spine stamped in dark green, top edge stained yellow, fore edge uncut, bottom edge rough cut. Collects thirteen stories, six with Stanley Featherstone Ukbridge. The contents differ from the U. K. edition which collected nine stories this edition drops "All's Well with Bingo" and "Romance at Droitgate Spa." Of the six different contents stories, "Scratch Man" would not appear in a U. K. collection until 1959. McIlvane A62b. Some foxing along the upper front cover and some darkening to gutters, a very good copy in a very good price clipped dust jacket with rubbing to edges and folds, shelf wear with slight loss along top spine edge with a tiny bit of loss to upper left front panel, shelf wear to lower spine end. (22588)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$251.21 + shipping
Description: [Classic Humour] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[8] 312. Publisher's green cloth with blue titles and illustration to spine. Top edge yellow, others untrimmed. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket. Endpapers browned. Some spotting to cloth. Jacket sunned and rubbed to spine with rubbing and chips to edges. Very good. Thirteen previously uncollected short stories written over the last fifteen years.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
WODEHOUSE, P.G.. Eggs, Beans And Crumpets. Doubleday, Doran & Company, inc., 1940.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: WODEHOUSE, P.G. [312] pp. 1940 First Edition 8 1/8" x 6" Collects thirteen stories, six with Stanley Featherstone Ukbridge. The contents differ from the U. K. edition which collected nine stories this edition drops "All's Well with Bingo" and "Romance at Droitgate Spa." Of the six different contents stories, "Scratch Man" would not appear in a U. K. collection until 1959. McIlvane A62b.
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P.G.. Eggs, Beans and Crumpets. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1940, 1940.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. Fine in a very good dust jacket. 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.. Eggs, Beans And Crumpets. Doubleday Doran, New York, 1940.
Price: US$579.72 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 312. Original light green boards, lettered in dark green to spine. Leading edge uncut. Illustrated dustwrapper. Offsetting to endpapers, small ownership name to ffep., otherwise a near fine copy in a very good dustwrapper with some wear to spine ends, closed tear to rear panel near head of spine, and some light edgewear. First US edition. A different collection of stories from those in the UK edition, many of which had previously appeared in Lord Emsworth And Others [Herbert Jenkins, 1937]. McIlvaine A62b
Seller: Neil Pearson Rare Books, London, United Kingdom