The Return of Jeeves. WODEHOUSE, P. G.

First US edition, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Best wishes P. G. Wodehouse". The Return of Jeeves is the first Wodehouse novel published by Simon and Schuster, who published the rest of Wodehouse's books in the US. The novel was initially printed in the UK a year prior as Ring for Jeeves. McIlvaine A74b. Octavo. Original brown quarter cloth, spine and front cover lettered in bronze, black board sides, top edge red. With dust jacket. Spine foot gently bumped; jacket spine toned, else bright, a little rubbed, with a handful of shallow chips and closed tears, occasionally reinforced on verso, unclipped: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.