Summer Lightning
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
[Second Impression.]
BRIGHT, CLEAN, CRISP COPY
Published: Herbert Jenkins, [1931]
Stock code: 49769
Price: £144.00
8vo., Second Impression, free endpapers lightly browned, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; orange cloth, upper board and backstrip framed and lettered in black, top lightly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy.
With 2pp publisher's catalogue at end. Bright copy of the third Blandings episode, recounting the kidnapping of the Empress. First published in 1929 in the USA (as 'Fish Preferred') and the UK (present title). The dedication to Denis Mackail and the author's two-page preface do not appear in the US editions. EARLY PRINTINGS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. McIlvaine A41b.2.