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Thank You, Jeeves (The Collector's Wodehouse)
by WODEHOUSE, P.G
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Previous owner's rune bookplate to front pastedown, otherwise nearly fine in fine dust jacket. A mere trace of spotting to edges
- Seller
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Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Woodstock: The Overlook Press, 2003. First Thus. Hardcover. Previous owner's rune bookplate to front pastedown, otherwise nearly fine in fine dust jacket. A mere trace of spotting to edges.. 12mo. 5.25 x 7.5 in. 263, [9] pp. Full powder blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine, with white & yellow candy stripe endpapers; in pictorial dust jacket. Published as part of The Collector's Wodehouse; first printing. A very attractive edition.
Synopsis
PG Wodehouse was born on the 15th October 1881 in Guildford, Surrey, England. He was educated at Dulwich College between 1894 and 1900, and in 1900 he entered the employ of the Hong Kong & Shanghai bank at £80 per year. He began writing articles for various newspapers and periodicals. In 1902 he resigned from the bank, and in the same year his first novel The Pothunters was published. 'Plum' then wrote many highly successful novels as well as musicals, and in 1929 he signed a contract to work as a screenwriter in Hollywood. After several years in Britain, he moved back to to the USA permanently. In 1974 his last complete novel Aunts aren't Gentlemen was published, and in 1975 he was knighted by the Queen. On the 14th Feb 1975 Plum died in hospital 'after a good morning's work on his latest novel'
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Details
- Bookseller
- Irving Book Company
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 405
- Title
- Thank You, Jeeves (The Collector's Wodehouse)
- Author
- WODEHOUSE, P.G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Previous owner's rune bookplate to front pastedown, otherwise nearly fine in fine dust jacket. A mere trace of spotting to edges
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- The Overlook Press
- Place of Publication
- Woodstock
- Date Published
- 2003
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- Bookplate
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- Gilt
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- Jacket
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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