WODEHOUSE, P.G. The Mating Season.

Chaos in the Countryside

WODEHOUSE, P.G. The Mating Season. New York: Didier. 1949.

8vo. Publisher’s burgundy cloth, lettered in white to spine with facsimile signature in white to upper board, illustrated dust-jacket by Hal McIntosh with printed price $2.95 to front flap; rippling to jacket, jacket worn but illustration remains bright, four pieces of black adhesive tape to upper and lower boards (c. 12 x 55 mm), wear to edges of boards and corners bumped; fair.

First US edition, first printing of the ninth full-length novel featuring Bertie Wooster and the ever-resourceful Jeeves.

Bertie’s formidable Aunt Agatha once again orders him away, this time to Deverill Hall, where he is expected to stay with some of her friends and perform in a village concert. A peaceful stay in the country soon descends into chaos when Bertie is encouraged to impersonate his friend, Gussie Fink-Nottle, whose relationship with Madeline Bassett is already in jeopardy.

The novel was first published in the UK on 9 September 1949, and later published in the US on 29 November 1949.

Mcllvaine A69b.

SKU: 2126102