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Wodehouse, P. G.. The Old Reliable. Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1951.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Originally priced at $2.75/light brown cloth with red lettering on spine in red and white jacket with color illustration of wom-; 217 pages; An with pearls and friends in background and red and yellow lettering on front, black lettering on spine/jacket in mylar/B&W photo of Wodehouse on back jacket/front and back flyleaves slightly browned
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P.G.. The Old Reliable. Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1951.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good condition hard cover.
Seller: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P.G.. The Old Reliable. Doubleday, Garden City, New York, 1951.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American edition. Small octavo. Margins modestly toned, very faint foxing on topedge, near fine in a very good dust jacket with chips and tears, rubbing, and a couple small abrasions (affecting a bit of text on the spine).
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P. G.. The Old Reliable. Doubleday & Co., Garden City, 1951.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1951. Stated First Edition. Very Good+/very good. Stated First Edition, in original unclipped jacket. Clean unfaded beige boards with red lettering on spine. Very light bumping to corners tips, no fraying or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 217 pgs. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, has small corner chips and very shallow chipping at top and bottom spine edges, several short closed edge tears, small corner crease to top rear corner. Author's photo on rear panel. The Wodehouse version of life in Hollywood.
Seller: Old Scrolls Book Shop, Stanley, NY, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P. G.. The Old Reliable. Garden City, Doubleday & Co, 1951.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Book near fine, dust jacket has some creasing and wear to the top edge, very good. First edition, so stated. McIlvaine A71b
Seller: Darwin Labordo, Books, Sierra Madre, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 217 pages. Small octavo (7 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with red lettering to spine in original jacket. (APG: 80b) First American edition. The Old Reliable is a novel by P.G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on April 18, 1951 by Herbert Jenkins, London and in the United States on October 11, 1951 by Doubleday & Co, New York. The novel was serialized in Collier's magazine from 24 June to 22 July 1950, under the title "Phipps to the Rescue". The story is set in Hollywood, and follows the romantic and financial difficulties of various film stars, writers, movie moguls, butlers and safe-crackers. The Old Reliable was adapted as a made-for-TV movie in 1988 under the title Tales from the Hollywood Hills: The Old Reliable and starred Lynn Redgrave as Wilhemina ("Bill") Shannon, the "old reliable" of the title. Condition: Light edge wear, front heal corner bumped. Jacket corners and spine ends lightly chipped, light edge wear with some small chips and closed tears, spine sunned and soiled, black lettering front wrapper slightly blurred else a very good copy in like jacket.
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P.G.. The Old Reliable. Doubleday & Company, Inc, Garden City, 1951.
Price: US$82.50 + shipping
Description: First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); tan paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in red on spine; dustjacket; [ii],[6],7-217,[5]pp. Mild offsetting from jacket flaps onto endpapers, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.75), gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, with a closed tear at upper front panel, and some faint foxing on verso; Very Good+. A novel in which Wodehouse tackles Hollywood life, first serialized in Collier's magazine. MCILVAINE A71b.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P.G.. The Old Reliable. Garden City: Doubleday, 1951, 1951.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. Owner's name; about fine in a very good dust jacket with a faded spine. 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 Old Reliable. Garden City: Doubleday, 1951, 1951.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. About 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.. The Old Reliable. Garden City: Doubleday, 1951, 1951.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. Owner's signature; near fine in a very good dust jacket with a faded spine. 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 Old Reliable. Garden City: Doubleday, 1951, 1951.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. About fine 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.