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WODEHOUSE, P.G. The Girl on the Boat.

London: Herbert Jenkins. 1922.

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    • Transatlantic Comedy

      WODEHOUSE, P.G. The Girl on the Boat. London: Herbert Jenkins. 1922.

      8vo. Publisher’s orange cloth, upper board and spine lettered and decorated in red-brown; pp. 312, [8 (advertisements)]; cloth worn, rubbed, and lightly soiled; short closed marginal tear to half-title; but internally a very good copy.

      First UK edition, first printing, of this comedy set aboard a White Star liner bound for England.

      The story first appeared as a serial in the US in Woman’s Home Companion in 1921 under the title Three Men and a Maid, under which it was also first published in book form by the New York publisher George H. Doran. The novel was adapted for film in 1962 starring Norman Wisdom (1915–2010), directed by Henry Kaplan (1926–2005).

      Mcllvaine A28b.

      SKU: 2126259

    Transatlantic Comedy

    WODEHOUSE, P.G. The Girl on the Boat. London: Herbert Jenkins. 1922.

    8vo. Publisher’s orange cloth, upper board and spine lettered and decorated in red-brown; pp. 312, [8 (advertisements)]; cloth worn, rubbed, and lightly soiled; short closed marginal tear to half-title; but internally a very good copy.

    First UK edition, first printing, of this comedy set aboard a White Star liner bound for England.

    The story first appeared as a serial in the US in Woman’s Home Companion in 1921 under the title Three Men and a Maid, under which it was also first published in book form by the New York publisher George H. Doran. The novel was adapted for film in 1962 starring Norman Wisdom (1915–2010), directed by Henry Kaplan (1926–2005).

    Mcllvaine A28b.

    SKU: 2126259

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