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First edition, first impression, in the extremely rare dust jacket, this copy from the library of James H. Heineman (1917-1994), the co-author of P. G. Wodehouse: Centenary Celebration (1981) and "the world's foremost collector of Wodehouse memorabilia" (Plum Lines), with his bookplate. The copy was later in the collection of the Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts (1941-2021), with his posthumous bookplate. This is the second collection of Jeeves and Wooster short stories, following My Man Jeeves (1919), and the first in the legendary Jenkins format. The 18 short stories originally appeared in The Strand Magazine between 1918 and 1922. This copy is a first issue, without the full stop after the date on the title page. We can trace only one other copy in the jacket in auction records. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in black, publisher's device to rear cover in black. With dust jacket. Book fresh and clean, just slight bumping and rubbing to extremities; jacket lightly soiled, edges chipped with some loss to first word of title on spine and front panel, a few short closed tears discreetly repaired, flaps without price as issued: a fine copy in very good dust jacket. McIlvaine A30a1. Plum Lines: The Quarterly Newsletter of the Wodehouse Society, vol. 15, no. 3, Autumn 1994.

The Inimitable Jeeves is a comic novel by P. G. Wodehouse. It is a collection of stories originally published in various magazines and later compiled into a single volume. The book features the beloved characters Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves.