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Mike.

A Public School Story.

Stock Code 99964

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1909

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A superior example of this very rare early first edition novel by P.G. Wodehouse, bringing together two stories (Jackson Junior, subsequently known as Mike at Wrykyn [1953], and The Lost Lambs, subsequently known as Enter Psmith [1935] and Mike & Psmith [1953]) that originally appeared in serial form in The Captain magazine. The stories feature the first appearance of the popular Wodehouse character Psmith, the Drones Club member who would go on to appear in numerous Wodehousian tales.

This work is notorious for either missing plates or being in terrible condition, but this copy is one of the best examples we have seen.

First edition, first issue (without advertisements or date to title verso); 8vo; half-title, frontispiece and 11 plates by T.M.R. Whitwell, device to title, some minor toning and oxidising, usual toning to endpapers, contemporary lending library label & stamp to front pastedown; publisher's green cloth with with cricket scene in white, black and red to upper cover and spine, with title in gilt to spine, spine slightly dulled, some minor rubbing and bumping to extremities with small closed tear to cloth at head of spine.

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Mike.

WODEHOUSE, P.G.

Stock code: 99964

£1,500.00

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