WODEHOUSE, P.G. Blandings Castle.

The First Short Stories Set at Blandings

WODEHOUSE, P.G. Blandings Castle. London: Herbert Jenkins. 1935.

8vo. Publisher’s turquoise cloth, spine and upper board lettered in black, printer’s device blocked to spine in black, in the illustrated dust-jacket by Abbey with printed price of 7/6 to spine; pp. 311, [1 (blank)], [8 (publisher’s advertisements); jacket skilfully repaired with a little recolouring to back panel and foot of spine, spine ends lightly worn, sunning to cloth spine and upper edges of boards with small areas of discolouration, light browning to spine of jacket at verso; otherwise a very good copy.

First edition, first printing of the first collection of short stories set at Blandings Castle, and the fifth book overall to feature the castle.

The six short stories had previously been published in the UK in The Strand between December 1924 and June 1933, and in the US in Liberty, The American Magazine, and The Saturday Evening Post between 1924 to 1933. The stories were first issued in book form in the UK on 12 April 1935, followed by the US edition on 20 September 1935.

McIlvaine A53a.

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