The Old Reliable

"The Old Reliable" by P.G. WODEHOUSE with its original dust jacket. 1951 1st American edition; Doubleday & Company; New York. From the dust jacket: "He's off again, the inimitably funny P.G. Wodehouse, projecting an entirely new cast of colorful characters into that glittering metropolis of movie magnets - Hollywood. In this hilarious frolic, the principals, in order of their appearance, consist of a superannuated playboy and a butler who has done time for safecracking; an ingenious but practical lady biographer and a vaguely lovelorn English nobleman; a beauteous but apprehensive Juliet and her irreverent Romeo; a tight-fisted former film queen and a pair of thoroughly screen-struck policeman." Condition: Clean covers and spine; sharp corners. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. About ten or so pages at the center have a small stain at an outer edge; light stain at the lower-outer corner of the rear and paper. Name, date & initials written in pen at the top edge of the front end paper. Overall the book is in Very Good- condition. The dust jacket has some light soiling to the front and back covers; the price has been clipped from the front flap; tears along the perimeter; the red coloring has mostly faded on the spine; there are a few light stains along the right edge of the rear flap...overall the jacket is in Good condition. (The jacket comes with a clear, protective sleeve - not shown.)