Wodehouse (P.G.) Heavy Weather
£2,500
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1933.
First edition, first printing. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
A superb first edition example of this comedic masterpiece by P.G. Wodehouse, the second book to feature Blandings Castle staple Galahad Threepwood (The Honourable).
Out of stock
Book Near Fine; jacket with expert restoration to spine ends and some neat re-edging by Richard Reeves, resulting in a copy that presents splendidly.
Jacket artwork by K.B. Studio.
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London, Herbert Jenkins, [1942].
First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth lettered in black. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
Thankfully not a suspiciously precognitive account of the Town Called Alice author's demise! Great jacket artwork though.
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London, Herbert Jenkins, 1931
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket correctly priced at 7/6 on spine.
A 'rollicking yarn' from this very prolific author concerning one Oswald Twining who writes novelettes of the purple passion variety under the name of 'Hugo Blazer' and Geraldine Rhombard, the daughter of a Dean and for whom Oswald has fallen very heavily.
Rare in jacket no copies online at time of listing.
Detective Fiction
First edition.
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1937.
Signed and inscribed in the year of publication to John Gawsworth on the front endpaper describing Suicide Alibi as ‘’not another little classic but it will serve!’’
Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong, better known as John Gawsworth, was a British writer, poet and compiler of anthologies, both of poetry and of short stories.
A very scarce locked room mystery involving the shooting of a publisher in a room under observation (Adey p275)
Very desirable especially with such a fabulous association.