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London : Herbert Jenkins, (1934). First edition. The first full-length Jeeves & Wooster novel - Jeeves gives notice.
Crown 8vo (19cm). 312,[viii]pp. Original stone cloth, blocked and lettered in red; top edge pink; a few minor marks and signs of age and use; a few spots, but a very good copy. Times Book Club label and stamp on rear endpaper. Connolly 62. Jasen 51. McIlvaine A51a.

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London : Herbert Jenkins, (1935). First edition. Twelve short stories - six relating to Blandings, one Bobbie Wickham, and five Mulliners of Hollywood.
Crown 8vo. 312,[viii]pp. Original turquoise cloth, blocked and lettered in black; a slightly tired copy, faded and slightly marked, with the edges lightly spotted, but in the pictorial Abbey dust-jacket - slightly torn and a little worn, with the lower third of the spine and the whole of the rear flap patched and replaced in a reasonable facsimile. Ownership inscription of F. G. Shipp. Connolly 65. Jasen 53. McIlvaine A53a.

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London : Herbert Jenkins, (1937). First edition : in the variant orange cloth. A splendid collection of nine short stories, with Lord Emsworth, Blandings Castle, Mr Mulliner, the Oldest Member, the Drones Club, Ukridge, etc.
Crown 8vo (19cm). 312,[viii]pp. Original orange cloth, ruled, blocked and lettered in black; just a few faint signs of age and use, but a very good, bright and firm copy. Contemporary (1939) ownership inscription of Ole Quistedt. Connolly 71. Jasen 57. McIlvaine A57a.

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London : Herbert Jenkins, (1938). First British edition. Impecunious baronet, hideous house, rich potential buyer, breach of promise, etc.
Crown 8vo. (312),[viii]pp. Bound in a smart recent half russet morocco, banded and gilt; marbled sides; a few minor marks and spots, but overall a very good copy. Connolly 72(i). Jasen 58a. McIlvaine A59b.

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London : Herbert Jenkins, (1938). First edition : in the variant orange cloth. "I reached out a hand from under the blankets, and rang the bell for Jeeves ..." - the third Jeeves and Wooster novel.
Crown 8vo (19cm). 312,[viii]pp. Original cloth, ruled, blocked and lettered in black; a touch sunned; a few faint marks; mild tanning to endpapers, but a very good copy. Contemporary (1939) ownership inscription of Ole Quistedt. Connolly 73. Jasen 59. McIlvaine A60b.

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London : Herbert Jenkins, [1947]. First British edition. The fourth Jeeves & Wooster novel - with Florence Craye, Stilton Cheesewright, Zenobia Hopwood, Lord Worplesdon, Boko Fittleworth, and Edwin the Boy Scout.
Crown 8vo. 256pp. Original orange cloth, lettered across upper cover; ruled, blocked and lettered across spine; blocked and lettered on lower cover - all in black; slightest hint of a crease to spine; a few edge spots, but a very good, bright and overall clean copy in the original pictorial Frank Ford dust-jacket - lightly creased and worn, with a few short nicks and slight tears, but complete and still attractive. Connolly 80.(i). Jasen 64a. McIlvaine A65b.

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London : Herbert Jenkins, [1948]. First edition. The second Uncle Fred novel - "Uncle Fred recognized this as a situation calling for immediate action, brilliant strategy and audacity of a more brazen order ..." - with Otis Painter, struggling publisher, the choleric Sir Aylmer Bostock, Pongo Twistleton, etc.
Crown 8vo (20cm). (250),[ii]pp. Original orange cloth, ruled, blocked and lettered in black; a touch of rubbing; some spotting of edges, endpapers and prelims, but overall a very good copy in the original Frank Ford dust-jacket - a little worn, slightly torn, chipped, creased and slightly spotted, but substantially complete and still attractive. Connolly 83. Jasen 67. McIlvaine A68a.

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London : Herbert Jenkins, [1949]. First edition. The fifth Jeeves & Wooster novel - with the debut of Catsmeat Pirbright and the continuing saga of Gussie Fink-Nottle and Madeline Basset.
Crown 8vo. 246,[ii]pp. Original orange cloth, lettered across upper cover; ruled, blocked and lettered across spine; blocked and lettered on lower cover - all in black; a few edge spots, a few tiny creases, but a very good, bright and overall clean copy in the original pictorial Frank Ford dust-jacket - lightly sunned, a little worn, with a few short nicks and slight tears, price-clipped by the publisher with a revised price stamped on flap, but otherwise complete and still attractive. Connolly 85. Jasen 68. McIlvaine A69a.

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