{"product_id":"wodehouse-p-g-blandings-castle-1","title":"WODEHOUSE, P.G. Blandings Castle.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eThe First Short Stories Set at Blandings\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e Blandings Castle. \u003ci\u003eLondon: Herbert Jenkins\u003c\/i\u003e. 1935.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Publisher’s turquoise cloth, spine and upper board lettered in black, printer’s device blocked to spine in black, in the illustrated dust-jacket by Abbey with printed price of 7\/6 to spine; pp. 311, [1 (blank)], [8 (publisher’s advertisements); jacket skilfully repaired with a little recolouring to back panel and foot of spine, spine ends lightly worn, sunning to cloth spine and upper edges of boards with small areas of discolouration, light browning to spine of jacket at verso; otherwise a very good copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, first printing of the first collection of short stories set at Blandings Castle, and the fifth book overall to feature the castle.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe six short stories had previously been published in the UK in \u003ci\u003eThe Strand\u003c\/i\u003e between December 1924 and June 1933, and in the US in \u003ci\u003eLiberty, The American Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Saturday Evening Post\u003c\/i\u003e between 1924 to 1933. The stories were first issued in book form in the UK on 12 April 1935, followed by the US edition on 20 September 1935.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcIlvaine A53a.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2126328\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64900473160057,"sku":"2126328","price":600.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2126328.jpg?v=1792138342","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/wodehouse-p-g-blandings-castle-1","provider":"Sotheran's","version":"1.0","type":"link"}