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UNCLE FRED IN THE SPRINGTIME
by WODEHOUSE, P.G
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London : HERBERT JENKINS Ltd, 1940 States " 2nd.printing".Undated Ink gift inscp. to front free end paper dated Xmas 1940. Orange cloth boards with black titles, 185x130mm approx.311 nos. pp + 8 of publisher's adverts. Blandings Castle novel in which Emsworth is faced with the appalling prospect of losing his prize pig, the Empress of Blandings. Good/Good (Book- A little shelf wear to extremities of boards and some finger soiling. Offset browning to end papers which are also a little tanned and the first and last few pages and edges of the book block have light to moderate foxing. Ink gift insc. to front free end paper dated Xmas 1940. Dust Jacket Rubbed and with some loss to paper at extremities- max 7 mm around head of spine. Red title to spine a little faded. Price label to spine 4/- Incl War Extra Costs. Front flap fold advert for Week-End Wodehouse rear flap - The Code of the Woosters. Respectably clean and now in a removeable proprietary protective wrapper). Please see our images of the actual book and jacket offered for sale.
Synopsis
Uncle Fred in the Springtime is a novel by P.G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on August 18 1939 by Doubleday Doran, New York, and in the United Kingdom on August 25 1939 by Herbert Jenkins, London. It is set at the idyllic Blandings Castle, home of Clarence, Earl of Emsworth, the fifth full-length novel to be set there.
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- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 118222
- Title
- UNCLE FRED IN THE SPRINGTIME
- Author
- WODEHOUSE, P.G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Publisher
- HERBERT JENKINS Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1940
- Size
- 185x130mm Approx
- Keywords
- P G Wodehouse, Uncle Fred In The Springtime, Blandings Castle, The Earl of Emsworth, Books on line Brighton. humour classics fiction modern first editions ist ed h/b d/j
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