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The Intrusion of Jimmy
by Wodehouse, P.G
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Minus/No Jacket
- Seller
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Granville, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: W.J. Watt & Co, 1910. First edition, precedes publication of the English edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Published NY: W.J. Watt & Co., 1910, first printing - "published May" on verso. 8vo., 314pp., illustrated by Will Grefe with a color frontis and four black and white plates. Black cloth with green and yellow block, pictorial color inset and gilt titles, tissue-guarded frontis. Beginning as the novella, The Gem Collector in 1909, The Intrusion of Jimmy was substantially revised and expanded for publication as a book, issued first in the U.S. The London edition appeared six months later (November 1910) as A Gentleman of Leisure. Fray to the cloth at crown and heel, tips bit rubbed, dulling to the spine titles, light soil along edges, mild moisture stain at lower corner of page block. Pages clean and bright, binding tight. Very good minus. . 1st. Hard. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- The Wild Muse
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006930
- Title
- The Intrusion of Jimmy
- Author
- Wodehouse, P.G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Minus
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- W.J. Watt & Co
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1910
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary & Modern First Editions;
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About The Wild Muse
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- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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