Scott Meredith Eds (3 results)

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First UK Edition. First UK Edition, First Printing. Hard cover 8vo in orange cloth w/black dec and titles. Near Fine w/ foxed page edges, else Fine and unmarked book in Very Good unclipped DJ w/ light chipping, short tear bottom rear panel, now in clear protective cover. 200pp. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First printing. Spine tight, boards rigid and tips pointed. Text block square and clean. The dust jacket is NOT price clipped with an open tears at top front, top back and spine front corner with some tanning here and there. Now looks shiny and new in an archival mylar cover. Wrappable packaging. …

First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Wodehouse to his biographer and bibliographer Jasen on the front free endpaper, "To David from Plum, P. G. Wodehouse". Only Wodehouse's close friends and family knew him as "Plum". David A. Jasen (1937-2022) was the dedicatee of Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963). A ragtime scholar and performer, he shared a passion for music with Wodehouse, a famed musical lyricist. Wodehouse edited and wrote the introduction for this collection of stories by such fellow humourists as Robert Benchley, Leo Rosten, and S. J. Perelman. Jasen p. 257; McIlvaine B10a. Octavo. Illustrations throughout. Original black cloth, spine lettered in silver. With dust jacket. Minor rubbing to spine lettering, spine ends bumped, wear to one lower corner; jacket slightly rubbed but bright, ends and corners chipped, couple of short closed tears to edges, price-clipped: a very good copy in like jacket.…