Psmith Journalist

London: A & C Black, Ltd, 1915. Second UK Edition. First Impression (and first under this title, originally published as The Prince and Betty in 1912). Octavo (20cm); in the first binding, with the publisher's name measuring 1/8" at base of spine; navy blue cloth, with titling and pictorial elements stamped in gilt, ivory, black, and yellow on spine and front cover; viii,247,[1]pp, with frontispiece and 11 plates of illustrations by T.M.R. Whitwell. Bookplate of Wodhouse collector Douglas R. Vining to front pastedown; spine ends nudged, light wear to extremities, mild offsetting to endpapers, with scattered foxing to some preliminary and terminal leaves; Very Good+, lacking the rare dustjacket. A well-preserved copy of this early Wodehouse book, its contents first serialized in The Captain magazine between October 1909 and February 1910. MCILVAINE A15c.