My Man Jeeves

Author: Pelham Grenville "P G" Wodehouse (1881-1975)

Year: 1919

Publisher: George Newnes, Ltd.

Place: London

Description:

251+blank]+[2 ad] pages. Duodecimo (6 3/4" x 4 1/2") bound in original publisher's  salmon cloth stamped in blind with spine lettered in black. (McIlvaine A22) First edition.

The book was published in the United Kingdom in May 1919 by George Newnes; it is a collection of short stories featuring either Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, or Reggie Pepper. Although the book was not published in the United States, all the stories had appeared there, mostly in The Saturday Evening Post or Collier's Weekly, and in the Strand in the UK, prior to the publication of the UK book.

Several appeared later in rewritten form in Carry On, Jeeves (1925). "Absent Treatment", "Brother Alfred" and "Rallying Round Clarence" were included in the US version of The Man with Two Left Feet (1917).

Jeeves and Wooster had first appeared in the short story "Extricating Young Gussie", which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in 1915, and was included in The Man with Two Left Feet.

Condition: Spine ends rubbed and pushed. Corners bumped, lightly soiled, previous owner's name to half title else about very good lacking jacket.