Laughing Gas
by P.G. Wodehouse
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Veldhoven, Netherlands
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1936. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Original red cloth with black lettering and publishers vignette. Binding is tight and square with light scuffing to upper spine end. Inside clean, only lightest spotting to first pages. No marks or inscriptions. In bright, original, first state dust jacket with expertly repaired large tear to front cover and neatly restored loss to top edge and spine extremities. Correctly priced at 7/6. 311 pp. and 8 pp. of advertisements at the end. 19 x 13,5 cm. Dust jacket now protected in removable sleeve. A very collectible copy. .
Extended Description and Notes
First edition, first printing.
Synopsis
P.G. Wodehouse was born in 1881. He is the creator of Jeeves, Blandings Castle, Psmith, Ukridge, Uncle Fred and Mr Mulliner stories and novels.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Concept Books (NL)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002552
- Title
- Laughing Gas
- Author
- P.G. Wodehouse
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Herbert Jenkins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1936
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Litarature, First editions, UK, Wodehouse.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
Concept Books
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About the Seller
Concept Books
Biblio member since 2013
Veldhoven
About Concept Books
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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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...