Enter Psmith by Wodehouse (31 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Early printing in orange cloth. Bookplate. A portion of jacket attached to front end paper.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Hardcover / No jacket / Not dated.

Hardcoveer. Condition: G. No Jacket. First American Edition. 247 pp, the book and contents are clean and tight, this is an x-library book with the following markings: the front endpapers have the library stamp and dust jacket blurb glued on free endpaper, the rear endpapers have the date due slip and card pocket with author last name, book title, and a short number, the covers are tight, they are worn on top and bottom of the spine and have some scuffing and edge rubbing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First American edition. 247 pages. Laid in is a printed slip from the publisher with instructions to prospective reviewers. About very good condition, a tight and unworn copy, clipping from dust jacket pasted to inside of front board and some sticker residue at top of front free end paper. No owner names.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Early reprint. Publishers blue cloth, spine titles in black. Tanning to endpapers else clean, free of any former owner marking. Dust wrapper with minor wear, couple tiny chips at spine tips.

[circa 1936]. Reprint. Ownership signature of mystery author, Will Harris to the front endpaper. Outer margin of one leaf is mildly edge worn, spine age-toned, else very good in grey cloth with front cover border and spine titles in black; lacking the dust jacket. First serialized as "The Lost Lambs" and published in book form as the second half of MIKE (1909). This republished edition contains the separate publication of that second half of MIKE. Psmith is one of Wodehouse's best-loved characters.

Hard cover, 247 pages, aging on front and rear end papers, good.

reprint hardback with dust jacket Nice copy small octavo vii + 247pp., Neat ownership signature o/w a very nice copy in bright aquamarine cloth in a bright dust jacket with some loss at spine.

Condition: Good. American Issue. Book is in very good condition. Green leather binding with flora motif on covers and title and author on the spine in white. Ex-Library book with sticker cleanly removed from the spine and card slips removed from inside front cover. The book was rebound by Don R. Phillips of Paragon Bindings. Some toning to the fore edges and a single mark on the top fore edge. Pages have very light toning, but overall very good condition. Description of the book taped down on rear blank.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. None (illustrator). A fine copy of this tale of Psmith and Mike, beginning with the two meeting at school and becoming fast friends. 'Enter Psmith' contains the second half of P. G. Wodehouse's novel 'Mike'. This volume takes place two years after the former part, when the titular character is withdrawn from his school, and taken to a smaller school, whereupon he meets the eccentric Rupert Psmith. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, fine, with very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. The boards are a bit rubbed. Some tape burn / residue. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. First American Edition. spine slightly slightly faded from bright orange cloth. top corner clipped on front free end page. top edge of spine shows slight handling. ; 5 1/4 x 71/2 ".

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First edition, London, 1935. Book very good, with slight edgewear, slight discoloration at spine ends and top and bottom of boards, tiny bookshop stamp near bottom of front paste-down, front free end-paper torn off,slight discoloration on end-papers, boards very slightly bent. DJ good, with pieces missing at top and bottom of spine, top of back, bottom of front, chipping at corners, tiny tears near top and bottom of back , small tear near top of front, slight discoloration on spine and back, slight rubbing on front, slight creasing on back flap. In specially made slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First U.S. edition: U.S. printing imprint issue. Neat lending library ownership notice and address to the front endpaper, tiny tear to the heel of the spine, mild shelf wear, paper residue adhering to the pastedown endpapers, else very good plus; in a new high quality FACSIMILE dust jacket. First serialized as "The Lost Lambs" and published in book form as the second half of MIKE (1909). This republished edition contains the separate publication of that second half of MIKE. Psmith is one of Wodehouse's best-loved characters.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Green boards with red titles to the spine and front. Spine has some fade. Former owners bookplate inside the front board otherwise nice clean pages and firm binding. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard packaging.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. First Edition. First UK edition in green cloth binding with red titles. A better than good copy, fading to the spine, square text block just showing a little separation at the front endpaper, lightly toned edges, no introduced marks.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good in original orange cloth covered boards. First edition as indicated by the copyright date of 1935 stated on the title page. Some edge wear; darkening of the endpapers; binding slightly loose.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Clean green boards and spine, the latter, lettered in red and a tad browned. Jacket in clear removable sleeve shows soiling on rear white panel a little frayed around head and base of spine with minimal loss, slight wear to two top leading corners and a 1.5 split to top edge of spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st American Edition. Original publisher's orange cloth binding with multicolored illustrated dust wrapper in mylar. Wraparound illustration on dust wrapper shows Psmith leading an entourage holding his belongings as he reaches out to shake the hand of another man by a door. No date, circa 1935. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2." 247 pages, complete. Dust wrapper and pages and covers of book are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Dust wrapper not price-clipped. Dust wrapper has two 1/4" chips; one on the top of the spine and one on the back panel. Some minor chips along bottom edge of dust wrapper. No remainder marks. A Fine book in a Very Good dust wrapper. Publisher's Note: "Psmith, the first of Mr. Wodehouse's most celebrated characters, is already known to the many thousands who have read Psmith in the City and Psmith, Journalist. But his earliest appearance has hitherto been unnoticed by the general public because it occurs in a school story, Mike. At the end of the first part of that book the hero, Mike Jackson, is removed from Wrykyn to the inferior establishment of Sedleigh, and on his first day there he meets Psmith, likewise a new boy, superannuated from Eton. From this point onwards Psmith dominates the scene, and it is this second part of Mike, a complete book in itself, which is reprinted here in an edition that should give it the independent status it deserves." Psmith first appeared in the serial, "The Lost Lambs," which constituted the latter half of the novel, Mike (1909). "The Lost Lambs" was later printed in book form as Enter Psmith (1935) and Mike and Psmith (1953), which are the same book but with alternate titles.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Original teal colored cloth, lettered in dark red to the spine. 5' price to the spine of the J. H. Hartley dust jacket. Some offsetting to the endpapers from the jacket flap. Very minor edge-wear. A very clean, bright and solid copy. Near Fine / Near Fine.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [Classic Humour] FIRST US EDITION. Using the British sheets. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.viii; 247; [1]. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Anderson. Reading lean, textblock browned. Jacket with some rubbing to edges, and chips to corners and head and tail of spine. Jacket flap clipped, but with the original price of $2.00 still showing. Very good. Using the same sheets as the A. and C. Black edition, this first US edition is a sequel to 'Mike at Wrykyn', which first appeared in 1953. The two contiguous stories were originally serialised in 'The Captain' magazine, then published together as 'Mike' in 1909. McIlvaine A12d.2.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. HARDBACKS IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDINGS WITH THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKETS. EACH BOOK MEASURES APPROX 7.5 x 5 INCHES. SOME CHIPS AT TOP OF SPINES TO JACKETS, FEW MINOR MARKS TO REAR OF JACKETS WITH A COUPLE OF SMALL CLOSED TEARS AT SOME EDGES, ENDPAPERS LIGHTLY BROWNED. OVERALL BOTH ARE VERY GOOD COPIES. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE JACKETS MAY SHOW SOME REFLECTIONS IN IMAGES FROM THE CLEAR REMOVABLE COVERING. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOX.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. no date dark blue boards with no corner bump or edge wear. dj has edge wear, some tears and chipping. small piece at bottom of spine is missing.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. First Edition. First UK Edition. Publisher's Jade (blue-green cloth) with bright red lettering to the front board and spine. Published on 14 February 1935 at 2/6 net. The dustwrapper (featuring Psmith aged about 30) is a full-colour illustration by J. H. Hartley. The back panel has an advertisement for five books. This title was originally the second part of 'Mike' and was published separately in 1935 because it stands alone and introduces the highly popular Psmith. A VG copy (a neat gift inscription to the front free end-paper); a partially-faded spine (more so at the spine tips matching minor chipping to the dustwrapper). A clean interior. The VG dustwrapper is priced 2/6 net to the spine (as called for) and has a slither of loss to the spine ends (masked by laying behind similar colour paper). Quite uncommon these days. McIlvaine A12C. PD. Photographs/scans available upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A good copy of the 1st edition in good to very good contemporary wrapper. This title was originally the second part of 'Mike' and was published separately in 1935 because it stands alone and introduces the highly popular Psmith. The wrapper (which features a picture of Psmith as if he is around 30), is complete and not price-clipped. There is some nibbling at the top and bottom of the spine with slight loss and similar at the top of the front fold. There are couple of small edge tears at the bottom edge with archive tape repair. The back panel and back fold are slightly grubby. The inside of the wrap has some browning and spotting. The book is clean and sound. The spine and board edges are faded and there is a crease in the middle of the spine at the top. Corners with light wear - more on the bottom corner of the back board. The contents are very clean with light toning to paper and occasional spotting at the page edge.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition (Later issue). First Edition later issue printed from the English sheets. Bound in Orange cloth with black letters on the spine only. The Verso of the title-page is blank, but the title on the title page is printed in two lines rather than one. (Ref: Ahearn APG). A very splendid copy in crisp, bright orange woven cloth, virtually fine. In a handsome pictorial dustjacket with the price of $2.00 intact at the bottom of the inside front flap. The top of the front inside flap has been clipped, and the rear inside flap is blank. The charcoal drawing by Anderson covers the front and rear panels of the dustjacket as well as the jacket's spine with fascinating characters from the novel (see photo). With light rubbing and wear to the top and bottom of the spine ends and the corners. Overall, a very handsome, collectible copy of this Wodehouse rarity. First Edition later issue printed from the English sheets. Bound in Orange cloth with black letters on the spine only. The Verso of the title-page is blank, but the title on the title page is printed in two lines rather than one. (Ref: Ahearn APG).

WODEHOUSE, P.G. Enter Psmith. Original cloth, non-priceclipped dust jacket. New York: A.L. Burt Company, [n.d.]. Jacket has some wear and chipping, else a very good copy.

First American Edition. Anderson dustjacket art. "Psmith, the first of Mr. Wodehouse's most celebrated characters, is already known to the many thousands who have read Psmith in the City and Psmith, Journalist. But his earliest appearance has hitherto been unnoticed by the general public because it occurs in a school story, Mike. At the end of the first part of that book the hero, Mike Jackson, is removed from Wrykyn to the inferior establishment of Sedleigh, and on his first day there he meets Psmith, likewise a new boy, superannuated from Eton. From this point onwards Psmith dominates the scene, and it is this second part of Mike, a complete book in itself, which is reprinted here in an edition that should give it the independent status it deserves". Almost Near Fine, few small brown spots at page fore-edge, short ink address at front endpaper, in Very Good dustjacket, few small edge chips, short closed tears and shelf wear, spine ends nicked.

First Edition. ENTER PSMITH, Macmillan / A. & C. Black, Ltd., (1935), first American edition, a tight, bright vg+ copy in a vg pictorial dust-wrapper with some quite modest wear and tear and chipping.

First edition. Introducing the titular character, the story initially appeared in two parts in the magazine The Captain and then as the second half of the novel Mike (1909). McIlvaine A12c. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine and front cover lettered in red. With dust jacket. Spine sunned, front inner hinge partially split but holding, light creasing to upper outer corners of first few pages; jacket with chips to head of spine, with loss to a few letters, and corners, marks to rear panel, unclipped: a very good copy in like jacket.