Summer Moonshine, P.G. Wodehouse, 1938, [First Edition]

£18.00

Summer Moonshine

P.G. Wodehouse

1938

Herbert Jenkins Limited

First Edition

8vo

Description:

First UK edition of P.G. Wodehouse’s Summer Moonshine, published by Herbert Jenkins in London on 11 February 1938, four months after its American first appearance from Doubleday, Doran. A stand-alone comic novel, it is set at Walsingford Hall in Berkshire, where the impoverished former big-game hunter Sir Buckstone Abbott has been reduced to taking in paying guests while hoping to sell his house to a wealthy and overbearing Princess.

Condition:

Fair Condition. Red cloth with black titles to upper board and spine. Pages are clean. Both hinges are slack. Binding is slightly loose. Boards have some wear with some fraying to spine ends. Light marking to boards. Slacking to spine.

Summer Moonshine

P.G. Wodehouse

1938

Herbert Jenkins Limited

First Edition

8vo

Description:

First UK edition of P.G. Wodehouse’s Summer Moonshine, published by Herbert Jenkins in London on 11 February 1938, four months after its American first appearance from Doubleday, Doran. A stand-alone comic novel, it is set at Walsingford Hall in Berkshire, where the impoverished former big-game hunter Sir Buckstone Abbott has been reduced to taking in paying guests while hoping to sell his house to a wealthy and overbearing Princess.

Condition:

Fair Condition. Red cloth with black titles to upper board and spine. Pages are clean. Both hinges are slack. Binding is slightly loose. Boards have some wear with some fraying to spine ends. Light marking to boards. Slacking to spine.