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Parsloe Parsloe Comes for Prize Pig
WODEHOUSE, P.G. Pigs Have Wings. London: Herbert Jenkins Limited. 1952.
8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, spine lettered in black, in the unclipped first-issue dust-jacket illustrated by Sax; pp. 220, [2]; small losses to jacket at foot of spine and upper corner of rear cover, light spotting to edges (heavier to top-edge); a few marks to half-title, some offsetting to endpapers, else very good; small bookseller’s ticket (Killbergs, Helsingborg) to front pastedown.
First UK edition, first printing of the seventh novel based at Blandings Castle.
Lord Emsworth once again finds himself in a fierce rivalry with Sir Gregory Parsloe Parsloe over his prize-winning pig, the Empress of Blandings. The novel was initially serialised in Collier’s between 16 August and 20 September 1952, and had appeared in the US two weeks before this first UK edition.
McIlvaine A73b.
SKU: 2126251
Parsloe Parsloe Comes for Prize Pig
WODEHOUSE, P.G. Pigs Have Wings. London: Herbert Jenkins Limited. 1952.
8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, spine lettered in black, in the unclipped first-issue dust-jacket illustrated by Sax; pp. 220, [2]; small losses to jacket at foot of spine and upper corner of rear cover, light spotting to edges (heavier to top-edge); a few marks to half-title, some offsetting to endpapers, else very good; small bookseller’s ticket (Killbergs, Helsingborg) to front pastedown.
First UK edition, first printing of the seventh novel based at Blandings Castle.
Lord Emsworth once again finds himself in a fierce rivalry with Sir Gregory Parsloe Parsloe over his prize-winning pig, the Empress of Blandings. The novel was initially serialised in Collier’s between 16 August and 20 September 1952, and had appeared in the US two weeks before this first UK edition.
McIlvaine A73b.
SKU: 2126251
