The Ice in the Bedroom by Wodehouse, P. G - 1961

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961 First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Wodehouse on the front free endpaper: "Best wishes / P.G. Wodehouse". Publisher's quarter black cloth lettered in white, yellow, and red over purplish-black paper-covered boards with facsimile stamp of the author's signature in yellow to front board, yellow endpapers; in the original pictorial dust jacket designed by Paul Bacon. About near fine with light fading to the board edges; in an unclipped dust jacket, with light edge wear, a few tiny tears, small chips to the spine and shallow loss to the lower spine. The Ice in the Bedroom is a classic Wodehouse novel that is, as the dust jacket proclaims, "to be gulped, not sipped, to be taken up with glee and consumed with gusto as quickly as the reader can get to his favorite armchair and open to page one." Set in the fictional London suburb Valley Fields, this novel tells the intertwining stories of Freddie Widgeon, an office clerk with dreams of making it big and marrying Sally Foster, and Soapy and Dolly Molloy, a pair of mischievous burglars who have their eyes set on the "ice" in the bedroom - Widgeon's neighbor's jewels. The Ice in the Bedroom was first published serially in the Star Weekly, a weekend supplement of the Canadian magazine the Toronto Star, and, notably, this first American edition, published in February 1961, precedes the first English edition, which was published in October of the same year.. Signed by Author. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included.