WODEHOUSE, P.G. French Leave.

Love in Brittany

WODEHOUSE, P.G. French Leave. London: Herbert Jenkins. ‘1955’ [i.e. 1956].

8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, spine lettered in black, in the illustrated dust-jacket by Sax with the printed price 10/6 to front flap; pp. 206, [2]; a little wear to edges of jacket with small chips to corners but otherwise bright, some spotting to edges of textblock; near fine.

First edition, first printing of Wodehouse’s adaptation of Guy Bolton’s stage play Three Blind Mice (1938).

Set in the fictitious town of St Rocque in Brittany, French Leave follows the American chicken farmer Teresa Trent on vacation with her sisters when she falls in love with a penniless French writer. Wodehouse first used the location in the novel Hot Water (1932).

McIlvaine A78a.

SKU: 2126308