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London: Methuen & Co., 1933. Hardcover. Fair/No DJ. Thirteenth edition. POS on FFEP Roger Perrineau 1935, otherwise text is unmarked. Binding solid and whole but loosened from normal usage. Boards are rubbed on edges and spine which is also slanted. Missing Dust Jacket. Soiled speckled page edges not affecting interior.

London: Methuen, 1938. 312pp overall clean pleasing appearance...... Email for further details. NOT Inscribed or Signed. This is the Sixteenth Edition . Brown Cloth. VERY GOOD ( ABOVE AVERAGE)/No Jacket. Illus. by Not Illustrated. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Hard Back.

New York: George H. Doran, 1924. Q . hard. Very Good. Tight, no names, clean text. Probably 1st edition. very good, no dj, orange cloth w/ general edgewear, dulled spine 323 pgs

London : Methuen, 1933. 14th Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's inscription. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Bumped corners. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Series: Methuen's Half-Crown Novels. Physical description: 296p. ; 20cm. Subjects: Upper class ; Fiction.

Methuen & Co 1924. FIRST EDITION with later issue d/w, octavo, red cloth boards, black lettering to front board & spine, xi+296pp+8pp adverts, VG- (slight fading to spine, slight chipping to spine extrems, light splotching to boards, bookshop sticker and large 'hikurangi' stamp to fep, light browning to page edges, slight foxing throughout, gutter completely cracked at pp16-17 with soiling to crack - binding is sound but a little shaky, tears archival repaired to contents page, slightly cocked) in d/w, tatty (Tears with loss of 5cm at top & 3cm at bottom of spine, heavy chipping with loss to top of wrapper, light moderate soiling to front & moderate soiling to inside)

New York; (1924): George H. Doran Co. First American Edition. Octavo. 323pp., bound in yellow cloth lettered and decorated in green, spine lettering green, very slight fading to spine, a few very tiny white speckles to upper board otherwise a very good copy.

London: Methuen & Co., (1924).. First edition, 8vo, viii, 296, 8 advertisement pp. Original red cloth, spine very slightly faded, a few minor marks. McIlvaine A33a.

London: Methuen, 1924. 8vo, pp. 296. 8 pp. advertisements bound in at rear. Original red boards, lettered in black to front panel and spine. Lacking the dustwrapper. Small inked number to top corner of ffep., minimal wear to spine ends and slight bumping to corners, otherwise a near fine copy. First edition. Serialised in the Saturday Evening Post earlier the same year. 'I am half-way through mapping out a new novel, which looks like being a pippin. I am going on a new system this time, making the scenario very full, putting in atmosphere and dialogue etc., so that when I come actually to write it the work will be easy. So far I have scenarioed it out to about the 40,000 word mark; and it has taken me 13,000 words to do it! I have now reached a point where deep thought is required. I am not sure I haven't got too much plot, and may have to jettison the best idea in the story. I suppose the secret of writing is to got through your stuff till you come on something you think is particularly good, and… Read More

New York: George H. Doran, 1924. 8vo, pp. 323. Original yellow boards, lettered in black to front panel and spine. Slight age-toning to text block, but an all but fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, light wear and chipping to spine ends, rear panel just a little marked. First US edition, preceded by its UK counterpart of the same year. Part of the plot of Bill The Conqueror was used for the book of the Kern-Bolton-Wodehouse musical of the same year, Sitting Pretty, which opened in New York in April, 1924 -- six months before the book's publication, and a month before its serialisation began in the SEP. An extremely attractive copy of a book rarely seen in such nice condition. McIlvaine A33b