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Books in the British genre:

Bill the Conqueror (1924)

In what is surely one of the Master’s most complex plots we meet Percy Pilbeam and George Pyke who will reappear in later Wodehouse adventures. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Bill the Conqueror (1924)

In what is surely one of the Master’s most complex plots we meet Percy Pilbeam and George Pyke who will reappear in later Wodehouse adventures. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

The Book of the Queen’s Dolls’ House (1924)

Two volumes, but only one with Rackham illustrations, about a doll house made for Queen Mary.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham
Et al

David Balfour: Being Memoirs of His Adventures at Home and Abroad (1924)

In this second volume, David Balfour continues his adventures as he puts himself on the right side of the law, reclaims his inheritance and finds himself a wife. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

Doctor Dolittle’s Circus (1924)

Concerned by the abuse of animals in the circus, Doctor Dolittle decides to start his own to show how good a circus could be if the animals were in charge. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Hugh Lofting
Illustrator(s): Hugh Lofting

Golf Without Tears (1924)

Ten short stories involving golf narrated by the Oldest Member.

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Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Jim Davis (1924)

Young Jim Davis accidentally stumbles on a smugglers’ den and is shanghaied into their crew, until after a series of hairbreadth adventures he finally escapes.

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): Mead Schaeffer

King Arthur and His Knights (1924)

This version of the story of King Arthur is taken from Malory by an expert in medieval literature.

The Lady Noggs Assists (1924)

Further adventures of Lady Felicia Grandison, Noggs to her friends.

Author(s): Edgar Jepson
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Leave it to Psmith (1924)

Psmith leaves his teaching job and goes to Blandings Castle disguised as a Canadian minor poet to help Mike Jackson by stealing Lady Constance’s diamond necklace, and steals himself a wife. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Leave it to Psmith (1924)

Psmith leaves his teaching job and goes to Blandings Castle disguised as a Canadian minor poet to help Mike Jackson by stealing Lady Constance’s diamond necklace, and steals himself a wife. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): May Wilson Preston

Lilith (1924)

A story about a journey to the world of the dead.

Author(s): George MacDonald
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford

Mike: A Public School Story (1924)

Mike Jackson wins his first XI colors at Wrykyn in his first year, as set forth in the first part of the serialization of this novel ‘Jackson Junior,’ but two years later his father rusticates him to Sedleigh due to his poor marks. It is ... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): J. H. Hartley

The Paid Piper (1924)

The adventures of a tramp among high and low.

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Pears’ Annual 1924 (1924)

An annual sponsored by a soap company with a colored illustration by Rackham.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham
Et al

Ukridge (1924)

A collection of ten short stories about Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, that self absorbed promoter of the impossible.

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

When We Were Very Young (1924)

A book of poems in which we first meet Christopher Robin and Edward Bear. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

The Wings of the Morning (1924)

Miss Iris Deane is shipwrecked in the South China Sea along with the only other survivor, Robert Jenks, a cashiered British army officer who was working as a steward. The J.C. Winston edition has eleven color plates, the Doran edition only eight, but... View More

Author(s): Louis Tracy
Illustrator(s): Mead Schaeffer

Carry On, Jeeves! (1925)

A collection of short stories about Bertie Wooster and his gentleman’s personal gentleman Jeeves. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

The Children of Dickens (1925)

Short excerpts from Dicken’s novels introducing his child characters.

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