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Joy in the Morning (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. Very trace spotting to top edge.
- Seller
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Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Woodstock: The Overlook Press, 2002. First Thus. Hardcover. Previous owner's rune bookplate to front pastedown, otherwise nearly fine in fine dust jacket. Very trace spotting to top edge.. 12mo. 5.25 x 7.5 in. 296, [8] 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
'You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour.' Stephen Fry A Jeeves and Wooster novelTrapped in rural Steeple Bumpleigh, a man less stalwart than Bertie Wooster would probably give way at the knees. For among those present were Florence Craye, to whom Bertie had once been engaged and her new fiance 'Stilton' Cheesewright, who sees Bertie as a snake in the grass. And that biggest blot on the landscape, Edwin the Boy Scout, who is busy doing acts of kindness out of sheer malevolence. All Bertie's forebodings are fully justified. For in his efforts to oil the wheels of commerce, promote the course of true love and avoid the consequences of a vendetta, he becomes the prey of all and sundry. In fact only Jeeves can save him...
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Details
- Bookseller
- Irving Book Company
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 398
- Title
- Joy in the Morning (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. Very trace spotting to top edge.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- The Overlook Press
- Place of Publication
- Woodstock
- Date Published
- 2002
Terms of Sale
Irving Book Company
All items subject to prior sale.
About the Seller
Irving Book Company
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Asheville, North Carolina
About Irving Book Company
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Bookplate
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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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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