Bill the Conqueror
by WODEHOUSE, P.G
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good ++
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
NY: George H. Doran, 1924. Bound in bright orange cloth, stamped in green in the original dust jacket. This is the true first edition with all of the points -- colophon on copyright page and the "Q" at the bottom of the page -- and with the $2.00 price at the bottom of the spine of the dust jacket. Endpapers professionally restored and book tightened. The dust jacket is bright and whole -- the only flaw is chipping to spine ends of dust jacket. Still, a most desirable first edition of this early Wodehouse title. . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good ++.
Synopsis
Bill the Conqueror is a novel by P.G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on November 14, 1924 by Methuen & Co. , London, and in the United States on February 20, 1925 by George H. Doran, New York, the story having previously been serialised in the Saturday Evening Post from May 24 to July 12, 1924. The full title reads Bill the Conqueror, His Invasion of England in the Springtime.
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- Bookseller
- abookshop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 59006468
- Title
- Bill the Conqueror
- Author
- WODEHOUSE, P.G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good ++
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- George H. Doran
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1924
- Keywords
- Humor
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humor; Addbooks02;
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Cloth
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
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