The Code of the Woosters
By P. G. Wodehouse
 
First edition, first impression: London: Herbert Jenkins, 1938.
 
Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in black, upper board titled in black, publisher’s emblem to spine and lower board. Lacking the dust jacket.
 
The binding is clean and square, with the cloth fresh and unfaded, showing only the lightest rubbing at the extremities and a minute mark to the upper board. Spine firm and correctly aligned, though slightly toned. Internally, the text block is sound, with lightly toned edges, a few spots to edges and preliminaries and some age-browning to the endpapers; contents otherwise clean, free from inscriptions or annotations.
 
Lacking the jacket, as often encountered, but a notably well-preserved example of the cloth binding.
 
The Code of the Woosters is widely regarded as the high-water mark of Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster series, and for many critics his single finest comic novel.