WODEHOUSE, P.G. 1881-1975. Love Among the Chickens. New York: Circle Publishing Company, 1909.
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WODEHOUSE, P.G. 1881-1975.
Love Among the Chickens. New York: Circle Publishing Company, 1909.
8vo. Illustrated with frontispiece and 5 plates by Armand Both, advance copy leaf inserted before frontispiece. Publisher's tan pictorial cloth printed in red and dark blue. Spine ends bumped, spine slightly darkened, edges rubbed, gift inscription to front free endpaper, light toning.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, Advance Copy number 277, without a recipient's name on the advance copy leaf. This was Wodehouse's first book published in the U.S, bearing the copyright statement of his agent in the U.S., A.E. Baerman. Wodehouse later recounted that Baerman had cheated him, forcing him to pay $250 to recover the rights in order to have it adapted to a motion picture. McIlvaine A7b.
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Love Among the Chickens. New York: Circle Publishing Company, 1909.
8vo. Illustrated with frontispiece and 5 plates by Armand Both, advance copy leaf inserted before frontispiece. Publisher's tan pictorial cloth printed in red and dark blue. Spine ends bumped, spine slightly darkened, edges rubbed, gift inscription to front free endpaper, light toning.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, Advance Copy number 277, without a recipient's name on the advance copy leaf. This was Wodehouse's first book published in the U.S, bearing the copyright statement of his agent in the U.S., A.E. Baerman. Wodehouse later recounted that Baerman had cheated him, forcing him to pay $250 to recover the rights in order to have it adapted to a motion picture. McIlvaine A7b.
For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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WODEHOUSE, P.G. 1881-1975. Love Among the Chickens. New York: Circle Publishing Company, 1909.
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