WODEHOUSE, P.G. Nothing Serious.

Wodehouse’s ‘Most Hilarious Stories’

WODEHOUSE, P.G. Nothing Serious. New York: Doubleday and Company. 1951.

8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, lettered in black to spine, fore-edge untrimmed, illustrated dust-jacket by Frank Ford with printed price $2.00 to front flap; pp. 222, [2 (blank)]; jacket a little sunned with some light spotting to whites of jacket, edges a little creased with a few short closed tears, pushing with a minor wear to cloth at spine ends, spotting to top-edge of textblock; paper clip marking to top-edges of pp. 1–8; very good.

First US 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 A70b.

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