WODEHOUSE, P.G. Eggs, Beans and Crumpets.

With Three Additional Stories

WODEHOUSE, P.G. Eggs, Beans and Crumpets. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company. 1940.

8vo. Publisher’s green cloth lettered and decorated in a darker green to spine and upper, illustrated dust-jacket with printed price $2.00 to front flap, publisher’s codes ‘3373–40’ and ‘3388–40’ to front and back flaps respectively as called for by McIlvaine; pp. [8], 312; chipping edges and corners leading to some minor loss; very good.

First US edition, first printing, bringing together for the first time in a single volume this selection of stories featuring many of Wodehouse’s familiar characters such as Bingo Little, Mr Mulliner, and Ukridge.

These stories were initially published in the UK in The Strand and in the US in The Saturday Evening Post between 1937 and 1939. The present US book form edition differs slightly from its UK counterpart, including three additional stories: ‘Ukridge and the Home from Home’, ‘The Level Business Head’, or ‘The Come-Back of Battling Billson’. These stories were omitted from the UK edition because they had already appeared in Lord Emsworth and Others (1937).

Mcllvaine A62b.

SKU: 2126297