拍品 139
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. Performing Flea, A Self-Portrait in Letter, London: Herbert Jenkins, 1953, 8°, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, original blue cloth, dust-jacket (lower cover a little grubby and torn, upper cover rubbed, extremities chipped) [McIlvaine A76a]; French Leave, London: Herbert Jenkins, 1955, 8°, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (presentation inscription on front free endpaper), original red cloth, price-clipped dust-jacket by Sax (lower cover torn and creased, head of spine and extremities lightly rubbed and chipped) [McIlvaine A78a]; Mike at Wrykyn, London: Herbert Jenkins, 1953, 8° (ownership label on front pastedown, a little browned), original red cloth, dust-jacket by W. Spence (lower cover a little grubby, head and foot of spine and extremities chipped and torn). [McIlvaine A12e]

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WODEHOUSE, P. G. Performing Flea, A Self-Portrait in Letter, London: Herbert Jenkins, 1953, 8°, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, original blue cloth, dust-jacket (lower cover a little grubby and torn, upper cover rubbed, extremities chipped) [McIlvaine A76a]; French Leave, London: Herbert Jenkins, 1955, 8°, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (presentation inscription on front free endpaper), original red cloth, price-clipped dust-jacket by Sax (lower cover torn and creased, head of spine and extremities lightly rubbed and chipped) [McIlvaine A78a]; Mike at Wrykyn, London: Herbert Jenkins, 1953, 8° (ownership label on front pastedown, a little browned), original red cloth, dust-jacket by W. Spence (lower cover a little grubby, head and foot of spine and extremities chipped and torn). [McIlvaine A12e]

Sean O'Casey referred to Wodehouse as English literature's performing flea in a letter to the Daily Telegraph just after the Berlin broadcasts. (3)