A Prefect's Uncle
London, Adam & Charles Black, 1903 (first edition, early issue).
Octavo, [viii], 264, 8 (publisher's advertisements) pages plus 8 plates by R. Noel Pocock (the frontispiece with a tissue-guard).
Colour-pictorial red cloth very slightly rubbed and marked; free endpapers tanned; a near-fine copy.
An uncommonly bright copy of Wodehouse's rare second book. The present copy is from an unrecorded early issue, bound from the first edition sheets and differing only in the inclusion of the publisher's catalogue 'Beautiful Books for Young People', which refers to later titles including 'Mike', published in 1909. It predates McIlvaine's second issue (dated 1912) so we suggest a date circa 1910. McIlvaine A2a (not recording this issue); Jasen 2.
Item #146760
Price (AUD):
$5,000.00