Summer Lightning by PG Wodehouse, £1300 at Lockdales.
The UK edition published by Herbert Jenkins followed three weeks later on July 19 under the name Summer Lightning.
Any copy with its dust jacket intact is a rarity but the example offered by Lockdales (19.5% buyer’s premium) in Ipswich on April 23 was also a presentation copy, signed to the front endpaper With the Author’s Compliments, P.G. Wodehouse, July 1929.
Estimated at £80-120, it took £1300.
