Lot 1141 , Wodehouse, P.G. (and others). Twenty-Five Cricket Stories.

° Wodehouse, P.G. (and others). Twenty-Five Cricket Stories. publisher's device on title, 208pp. (incl. advert. leaf at front); original coloured pictorial and printed wrappers, newly rebacked with green linen and contained in a customised baize-lined drop down green cloth box with contrasting green morocco panelled spine, gilt lettered direct, cr. 8vo. George Newnes, (1909). * P.G.'s 4 contributions were: Tom, dick and Harry (Strand vol.1); the Wire-Pullers (The Strand, vol 30); The Lost Bowlers (The Strand, vol.30); How Pillingshot Scored (The Captain, vol.9) publisher's file copy.
£400-600

Condition:
upper wrapper with neat indelible stamp - "Literary Bureau, George Newnes Ltd..." with beneath (in ink) "File" . A rarity - not in Padwick, or the "Not in Padwick" supplement; the editon may have been withdrawn (? a dispute over rights). McIlvaine E126