New York: The Circle Publishing Company, 1909.
Price: $1,200.00
Hardcover. First American edition. Illustrated by Armand Both. Octavo. 350pp. Tan pictorial cloth. Faint erasure mark on front flyleaf, binding slightly bumped at two corners, else a very good or better copy. Advance Presentation Issue, copy number 52 of a limited (but unspecified) quantity of numbered copies with an extra leaf stating "This Advance Copy No. 52 of LOVE AMONG THE CHICKENS was made especially for [blank space] at the request of [blank space]." *McIlvaine* A7b, citing only the trade edition, but not citing this advance issue. The first novel by Wodehouse to be published in America. Elusive in the advance issue.
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