WODEHOUSE, P.G. Do Butlers Burgle Banks?

Bank-Robbing Butler

WODEHOUSE, P.G. Do Butlers Burgle Banks? New York: Simon and Schuster. 1968.

8vo. Publisher’s quarter blue cloth over mustard paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt to spine, illustrated dust-jacket by John Alcorn with printed price $4.50 to front flap; pp. 191, [1 (blank)]; a little pushing to spine ends, a little sunning to spine; light offsetting to endpapers, a few small marks to front fold with small chip to foot; near fine.

First edition, first printing of Wodehouse’s comic novel in which the gangster Horace Appleby poses as a butler.

Mike Bond inherits an insolvent bank and, eager to conceal the embarrassment of his financial affairs, hopes that it will be burgled. Fortunately, his new butler happens to be the leader of a gang of bank robbers. The novel was published in the UK a few weeks later by Herbert Jenkins.

Mcllvaine A91a.

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