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

Combination of Characters

WODEHOUSE, P.G. Eggs, Beans and Crumpets. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1940.

8vo. Publisher’s orange cloth, lettered in black to spine, illustrated dust-jacket by ‘Fenwick’ priced at 7/6 to spine; pp. 284, [4 (publisher’s advertisements)]; wear to jacket with creasing and chipping, closed tear to front panel affecting illustration (c. 35 mm) and black flap hinge (c. 56 mm) both repaired with tape to verso, slight discolouring to cloth at spine ends, some spotting to edges of textblock and some offsetting to endpapers; very good.

First edition, first printing of this collection, 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 UK book form edition differs slightly from its US counterpart, omitting ‘Ukridge and the Home from Home’, ‘The Level Business Head’, or ‘The Come-Back of Battling Billson’, all of which had already been included in Lord Emsworth and Others (1937).

Mcllvaine A62a.

SKU: 2126270