Spring Fever.
by WODEHOUSE, P. G
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited,, 1948. First UK edition, first impression, published simultaneously with the US edition. Wodehouse had originally written the story as a play for the American actor Edward Everett Horton. When that deal fell through, he reworked it as a novel which sets much of the drama in a close approximation of Hever Castle, in Kent. Octavo. Original orange cloth, spine lettered and ruled in black, publisher's device to spine and rear cover in black, front cover lettered in black. With dust jacket. Very light bumping to spine head; minor rubbing and nicking to jacket extremities, unclipped: a near-fine copy in like jacket. McIlvaine A67b.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 169467
- Title
- Spring Fever.
- Author
- WODEHOUSE, P. G
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Herbert Jenkins Limited,
- Date Published
- 1948
Terms of Sale
Peter Harrington
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
Glossary
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...