Piccadilly Jim
by P.G. Wodehouse
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Mona Vale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Herbert Jenkins, UK, No date. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Book Binding exposed slightly between early pages and rear endpapers. Minor soiling and rubbing to boards. 14th printing. Size: 12mo (7 to 7.5 inches). Item Type: Book. Text body is clean & unmarked. Binding good , not supertight. Moderate foxing to front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean. Edges badly foxed and browned. Bumping to board corners..
Synopsis
Piccadilly Jim is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the U.S. on February 24, 1917 by Dodd, Mean and Co. , New York, and in the U.K. in May 1918 by Herbert Jenkins, London. The story had previously appeared in the U.S. in the Saturday Evening Post between June and November 1916. The novel features Ogden Ford and his mother Nesta (both previously encountered in The Little Nugget). Nesta has remarried, to the hen-pecked, baseball-loving millionaire Mr.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shiny Owl Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32202
- Title
- Piccadilly Jim
- Author
- P.G. Wodehouse
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Herbert Jenkins
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- No date
- Keywords
- BZDB157 Fiction; Fiction::General & Literary Fiction; Humour. P.G. Wodehouse Piccadilly Jim
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humour;
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Mona Vale, New South Wales
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.