Jeeves omnibus
1940, First Edition, Third Printing. London : Herbert Jenkins. Good copy only in later gilt-blocked green cloth boards. Panel edges slightly worn, with joints and endbands slightly rubbed. Title page coming loose and ragged at the margins; gutter ragged pp. 558-563, with p. 559 loose. Text block remains otherwise sound and clean; despite its faults, a well-preserved copy. Item #471070
Physical description; 847 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. Notes; Date conjectural. Contents; Jeeves takes charge – Jeeves in the springtime – Scoring off Jeeves – Sir Roderick comes to lunch – Aunt Agatha takes the count – The artistic career of Corky – Jeeves and the chump Cyril – Jeeves and the unbidden guest – Jeeves and the hard-boiled egg – The Aunt and the sluggard – Comrade bingo – The great sermon handicap – The purity of the turf – The Metropolitan touch – The delayed exit of Claude and Eustace – Bingo and the little woman – The rummy affair of Old Biffy – Without the option – Fixing it for Freddie – Clustering round young Bingo – Jeeves and the impending doom – The inferiority complex of Old Sippy – Jeeves and the Yule-tide spirit – Jeeves and the song of songs – Episode of the dog Mcintosh – The spot of art – Jeeves and the kid Clementina – The love that purifies – Jeeves and the old school chum – Indian summer of an uncle – The ordeal of Young Tippy. Subjects; Jeeves (Fictitious character). Valets. Humorous stories, English. 20th century. Fiction. Illustrated.
Price: €18.95