JEEVES AND THE WEDDING BELLS.**

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp, clean,white background with silver+gilt bell art-decoesque illustrated dw/dj,with black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.There is a very tiny,tiny horizontal nick to vertical page edge of pp65/6.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's plain white paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped black ink printed letters to spine/backstrip,a b/w striped headband and immaculate grey+white bell design (from dw/dj illustration) illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii-viiipp+1-259pp [paginated] includes author's (Faulks's) note and 11 chapters; plus [unpaginated] publisher's printed,blank facsimile ex-libris page,title page,a dedication,and at the rear,1pp publisher's advert for Wodehouse official website etc,and 2pp blanks.
Authorised by the P.G. Wodehouse estate and an homage to the P.G. Wodehouse. An important and welcome addition to the Wodehouse canon for all Wodehouse collectors. Bertie Wooster,recently returned from a very pleasurable sojourn in Cannes,finds himself at the stately home of Sir Henry Hackwood in Dorset.Bertie is more than familiar with the country-house set-up: he is a veteran of the cocktail hour and, thanks to Jeeves,his gentleman's personal gentleman,is never less than immaculately dressed.On this occasion,however,it is Jeeves who is to be seen in the drawing room while Bertie finds himself below stairs - and he doesn't care for it at all. Love,as so often,is at the root of the confusion.Bertie,you see,has met Georgiana on the Cote d'Azur.And though she is clever and he has a reputation for foolish engagements,it looks as though this could be the real thing.However,Georgiana is the ward of Sir Henry Hackwood and,in order to maintain his beloved Melbury Hall,the impoverished Sir Henry has struck a deal that would see Georgiana becoming Mrs Rupert Venables.Meanwhile,Peregrine 'Woody' Beeching,one of Bertie's oldest chums,is desperate to regain the trust of his fiancee Amelia,Sir Henry's tennis-mad daughter.But why would this necessitate Bertie having to pass himself off as a servant when he has never so much as made a cup of tea? Could it be that the ever loyal, Spinoza-loving Jeeves has an ulterior motive? Evoking the sunlit days of a time gone by,'Jeeves and the Wedding Bells' is a delightfully witty story of mistaken identity,a midsummer village festival,a cricket match and love triumphant. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too!
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