London: A&C Black, 1910

8vo, pp. 266, 2 pp. advertisements bound in at rear. Original blue illustrated boards, lettered in gold and white to front panel and gold on yellow to spine. Front hinge tender, a couple of small marks to ffep., some minor chipping to colour at spine. Light edgewear to spine ends, and minor bumping to corners. A better than very good copy.

First edition, first issue.

First published as a serial in The Captain, October 1908 - March 1909, with the title The New Fold, Psmith In The City is a comic novel based on a miserable experience: the two years Wodehouse spent working for the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. Psmith was first introduced in the school novel Mike [1909] and, as in Psmith, Journalist, Mike is here retained as the titular character's foil.