Tales of St Austin's
London, Adam & Charles Black, 1903 (first edition, first issue).
Octavo, [xii], 282, [2] (advertisements) pages plus 12 plates by T.M.R. Whitwell, R. Noel Pocock, and E.F. Skinner (the frontispiece with a tissue-guard).
Colour-pictorial red cloth; free endpapers a little browned; one plate lightly tanned along the leading margin (and expertly reinserted); a few other trifling signs of age and handling, but overall in near-fine condition.
An exceptional copy of Wodehouse's third book, a collection of 16 public school tales, here in its first-issue binding: an uncommonly bright example of a book notoriously susceptible to fading. McIlvaine A3a.1; Jasen 3.
Item #146595
Price (AUD):
$8,000.00