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Jill the Reckless.
by P.G. Wodehouse:
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/very good
- Seller
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Westleton, Suffolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London:: Herbert Jenkins,, [c.1931-32].. Thirteenth printing.. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 313, [6]ads. Contents startlingly fresh and clean, like new. In the orange cloth, titled black, very bright and fresh, corners sharp. Slight binding fault ridge towards fore-edge. In the unrestored protected pictorial dust jacket, whose large white areas show some light soiling, grey at the edges and folds; with small chips to the corners, slight fraying to the spine ends, and short tears to the top edge of the pictorial front panel. '5/-' oval price label to spine is stuck over the original 4/- price; and 'Herbert Jenkins Green Labels' is printed on each of the flaps. Latest book advertised at the back is the Jeeves Omnibus of 1931. Super copy in lightly worn jacket.
Synopsis
Jill The Reckless is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the U.S. on October 11, 1920 by George H. Doran, New York (under the title The Little Warrior), and in the U.K. by Herbert Jenkins, London, on July 4 1921. It was serialised in Collier's Weekly in the U.S. , Maclean's in Canada, and Grand magazine in the UK, all in 1920. The heroine here, Jill Mariner, is a young woman from the lower end of the upper class.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Chapel Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19311100
- Title
- Jill the Reckless.
- Author
- P.G. Wodehouse:
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Thirteenth printing.
- Publisher
- Herbert Jenkins,
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- [c.1931-32].
Terms of Sale
Chapel Books
Payment can be made by card (Maestro, American Express, Visa, Mastercard, etc), or by PayPal or sterling cheque drawn on a British bank. Non-Sterling cheques and Sterling cheques drawn on non-UK banks incur a conversion charge of 10 (sorry !). REFUNDS: If you are unhappy with a book for any reason and return it within a week in the condition in which you received it I will refund the price of the book in full. If the book arrives damaged or is not as described, I will also refund the shipping cost in both directions. If you are returning it for other reasons, you will be responsible for paying the shipping cost both ways. Please email or ring me if you have any questions. 01728-648616 - try any hour !
About the Seller
Chapel Books
Biblio member since 2007
Westleton, Suffolk
About Chapel Books
I sell books from a large disused Chapel next to the village duck pond, where I have lived about 40 years: just inland from Dunwich and between Southwold and Aldeburgh. I open 7 days a week, 12-5.
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