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Wodehouse (P.G.) Uncle Fred in the Springtime
£120
New York, Doubleday, Doran, 1939.
First US edition, first printing. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
The novel that brings Frederick Altamont Cornwallis Twistleton, Fifth Earl of Ickenham – “Uncle Fred” – to Blandings Castle for the first time, in a plot to steal back the Empress of Blandings from the egg-throwing Duke of Dunstable. Widely rated among the strongest of the Blandings sequence and a key entry point for the Uncle Fred character, who would go on to headline three further novels.
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Internally very good; cloth slightly softened at head of spine; jacket worn at edges with some small tears and chips with occasional minor loss.
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