A Gentleman of Leisure
by P. G. Wodehouse
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Blackpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited. First Edition, Thirteenth Impression. . Cloth Bound Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. Not dated, Thirteenth printing, completing 110,078 copies. Size octavo, 256 pages. Red cloth covered boards with black titles to the front cover and spine, no dust jacket. Condition very good, corners and spine ends a little rubbed, a few small spots to first and last few pages, previous owner's name dated 1941 to front end-paper, else contents clean. With the bookplate of George MacDonald Fraser to the front paste-down. Ex-libris George Macdonald Fraser, author and creator of the Flashman series. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Synopsis
A Gentleman of Leisure is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse. It first appeared as a novella, under the title The Gem Collector, in the December 1909 issue of Ainslee's magazine. Revised and expanded, and with the title changed to The Intrusion of Jimmy, it was published as a book by W.J. Watt and Co. , New York, on 11 May 1910.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lazarus Books Limited
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016428
- Title
- A Gentleman of Leisure
- Author
- P. G. Wodehouse
- Format/Binding
- Cloth Bound Boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, Thirteenth Impression.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Herbert Jenkins Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
- FICTION HUMOUR CAPER UPPER CLASSES BERTIE WOOSTER JEEVES JIMMY PITT
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About the Seller
Lazarus Books Limited
Biblio member since 2007
Blackpool, Lancashire
About Lazarus Books Limited
We are a small family business located in Blackpool, England. We stock a varied range of Antiquarian and Collectable Books; Antiquarian Holy Bibles, Fine Bindings, Literature, Poetry, Military, Travel, First Editions, Illustrated, Childrens', Signed Books and more.
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- 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....
- Jacket
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- First Edition
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