WODEHOUSE, P.G. A Pelican at Blandings.

The Last Blandings Novel

WODEHOUSE, P.G. A Pelican at Blandings. London: Herbert Jenkins. 1969.

8vo. Publisher’s black boards, spine lettered in silver, illustrated dust-jacket by Osbert Lancaster with printed price of 25s to front flap; pp. 222; light toning to spine and whites of jacket, very light wear to spine ends; otherwise a bright and crisp copy, near fine.

First edition, first printing of the last fully completed novel in the Blandings Castle series.

Set largely at the Pelican Club, a riotous gentleman’s club in the 1890s, this novel sees the Earl of Emsworth’s sister, Lady Keeble, back into residence, alongside a familiar assortment of American millionaires. The rear panel of the dust-jacket features Tom Blau’s humorous photograph of P.G. Wodehouse touching his toes.

The novel was published six months later in the US under the alternative title No Nudes is Good Nudes.

Mcllvaine A92a.

SKU: 2126220