Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Wodehouse, P. G.. The Coming Of Bill.. Herbert Jenkins, 1920.
Price: US$16.23 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Twelfth impression. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.
Seller: M Godding Books Ltd, Devizes, WILTS, United Kingdom
P. G. Wodehouse. The Coming of Bill. Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1920.
Price: US$25.48 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Soiled and tanned red boards lettered and lined in black; stained and discoloured spine has been professionally relaid. Text block edges browned. Internally end papers foxed, half title tanned. Intermittent finger soiling mostly limited to first 80 pages.
Seller: Hugh Hardinge Books, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Wodehouse, P. G.. The Coming of Bill. Herbert Jenkins, London, 1920.
Price: US$38.22 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Spine faded and bumped to ends with minor fraying of cloth at top. Corners bumped. Front board clean with 2 minor lines of rippling near top corner. Rear board has some splash marks with discolouration at top near spine. Internally hinges intact with offsetting to end papers. Rear end paper stained at the place where the discolouration was on the rear board but it does not show up at all on the pages. Text pages all clean. 4pp adverts at rear. Postage will be confirmed when you enquire or order and for light or very heavy books will vary from the ABE quote which is based on a 1kg parcel. N.B. Postage to the USA will often be quite a bit less than the quote on ABE.
Seller: The Book Business (P.B.F.A), London, United Kingdom
P.G.WODEHOUSE. The Coming of Bill. A novel.. Herbert Jenkins, London, 1920.
Price: US$44.59 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: The first UK edition (first printing), originally published as 'Their Mutual Child' in the US a year earlier. 8vo. 251pp + [iv] publisher's catalogue at rear. Red cloth lettered and bordered in black at the spine and upper board. Top edge dust soiled. Cloth nicked with a little loss at the head of the backstrip and with some marking, soiling and discolouration to the boards. Some blemishing to occasional leaf margins. A fair copy. No dust wrapper. McIlvaine A23b.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
p. g. wodehouse. the coming of bill. herbert jenkins, london, 1920.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Red with black letters and design on spine and front.Bumped and rubbed corners and spine ends. Spine darkened, 3 spots of bubbling to cloth Some scattered light smudging. Interior clean with owners name.
Seller: broken wing books, blaine, MN, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P. G.. The Coming of Bill. Herbert Jenkins, London, 1920.
Price: US$54.91 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, first printing. A good + copy in lightly marked and rubbed boards, previous owner's initials on front end paper, which is lightly browned. The text is sound.
Seller: Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, Ireland
P G Wodehouse. The Coming of Bill. Herbert Jenkins, 1920.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A nice copy of the first edition with reinforced front hinge and complimentary facsimile ,good value
Seller: Dick Neal Fine Books, Booker Bay, NSW, Australia
WODEHOUSE, P[elham] G[renville].. The coming of Bill.. Herbert Jenkins,, London:, 1920.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo. 251, [1] pp., plus 4 pp. publ. ads. Red cloth, blk lettrng & rulng (vry mnr shlfwr), VG copy, from library of R. Tarrant Bailey, Ensleigh Lodge, Bath England, best known as one of the best English banjo players in England after World War I, where he formed a BMG club in 1924, w/ bkplate on frnt pstdn. First edition of another humorous tale by the master. Mrs. Lora Delane Porter had ideas, she didn't trust nature's laws of selection. Mate the most perfect adults and you get the most perfect children -- that was her theory. Of such a marriage "Bill" is born.
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P. G.. The Coming of Bill. Herbert Jenkins, 1920.
Price: US$210.22 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing with 4pp of ads at rear. 8vo. Red boards with black titles. A very good copy with clean boards with no marks. Light edgewear only. Internally complete and clean. Neat old ink name to endpaper. Endpapers original and unsplit. No marks to textblock edges & none of the usual nasty fading/patchiness to the red spine. A very attractive copy. McIlvaine A23b. Set in New York and Connecticut involves a couple trying to retrieve their "perfect child" from the overbearing Mrs Porter to establish a normal family life; stuffed full of wonderful Wodehousian characters - the bossy aunt, a tetchy millionaire, a good natured boxer and an orotund English Butler.
Seller: Julian Roberts Fine Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
WODEHOUSE, P.G.. The Coming of Bill.. Herbert Jenkins, London., 1920.
Price: US$222.96 + shipping
Description: First edition. A 251-page novel. Four pages of publisher's adverts at rear.Neat ownership signature on front free endpaper. Occasional foxing. Slight stain to fore-edge. Tail of spine slightly rubbed. Very good indeed. No dustwrapper.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
WODEHOUSE, P.G.. The Coming of Bill. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1920, 1920.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: First English Edition of Their Mutual Child. Ownership signature; hinges cracking; very good. 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.. The Coming of Bill. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY. Herbert Jenkins,, 1920.
Price: US$234.42 + shipping
Description: 8vo., First Edition; original red cloth, upper board and backstrip framed and lettered in black, covers very lightly cockled else a very good, bright, clean copy. With 4pp of publisher's advertisements at end. The US edition, published in the previous year, was titled 'Their Mutual Child'. This is the first UK edition. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Jasen A24a.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition (With Jenkins' Pegasus colophon declaring "A Herbert Jenkins' Book"). With small Bronte Book shop/ Keightly stamp at bottom of front pastedown.Previous owner's name written in ink with "Xmas 1920 from Dad&Mother" at the top of the front endpaper. Also a small plant stamp(matricaria chamomilla) has been glued to the center of the front endpaper. VG+ in woven dark red cloth stamped in black on the front boards and spine. With a touch of light wear to the spine ends and a little fraying along the bottom inch of the left-hand side of the spine. Overall, a handsome and scarce copy of one of Wodehouse's best. First Edition (With Jenkins' Pegasus colophon declaring "A Herbert Jenkins' Book").
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
P G Wodehouse. The Coming of Bill. Herbert Jenkins, 1920.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition in 1923 reprint wrapper. The wrapper has a repaired chip on the front panel and four small chips with a closed tear on the front panel This is a rarity. .Over time I have found 5 reprint wrappers .They are all identical except for the prices on the flaps. The first and second editions have a red frame on the back panel and 3-9 green . If you have a complete wrapper with the red frame Id love to hear from you .
Seller: Dick Neal Fine Books, Booker Bay, NSW, Australia
P g Wodehouse. The Coming of Bill. Herbert Jenkins, 1920.
Price: US$10000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: London red cloth .The book is fine no defect the wrapper has had minor restoration to spine ends,otherwise is probably very close to how it was when first published, with synopsis of malcolm sage on front flap and 3 bindles titles on rear flap. This is a reprint wrapper c1922.The first issue wrapper has a red border on the back panel and the only copy I am aware of is defective. .Over the years I have only seen 4 or 5 early reprints. Quite often collectors find a reprint and after checking with Macilvaine believe they have a first wrapper ,but not so .The bibliography is complicated The first and second printings have a red border 3-9 have a green border.The only way to establish the printing of the wrapper is to check the prices or non prices on the flaps I dont believe there is a complete first wrapper but Ive been wrong many times before Language: eng
Seller: Dick Neal Fine Books, Booker Bay, NSW, Australia