WODEHOUSE, P.G. Nothing Serious.

With Three New Stories

WODEHOUSE, P.G. Nothing Serious. London: Herbert Jenkins. 1950.

8vo. Publisher’s orange cloth lettered in black to spine and upper board with publisher’s device to lower board, in the illustrated dust-jacket by Frank Ford with printed price 8/6 to front flap; pp. 254, [1 (publisher’s advertisement)], [1 (blank)]; wear to jacket with loss to rear panel (c. 17 x 20 mm) but the illustration to front panel remains bright, spotting to edges of textblock; toning and offsetting to endpapers; very good.

First edition, first printing of a collection of ten short stories featuring Bingo Little and Freddie Widgeon at Blandings Castle.

The story ‘Bramley is So Bracing’ was first collected in Eggs, Beans and Crumpets (1940) and was the last Wodehouse story ever published in The Strand, in December 1940. It had previously been published in the US in The Saturday Evening Post on 28 October 1939. Other stories in this collection had appeared in This Week, Argosy, The National Home Monthly, The Cosmopolitan, but three stories are published for the first time in this collection: ‘The Shadow Passes’, ‘Up from the Depths’, and ‘How’s That, Umpire?’

Mcllvaine A70a.

SKU: 2126250