WODEHOUSE, P.G. Frozen Assets.

The Return of Pilbeam and Bodkin

WODEHOUSE, P.G. Frozen Assets. London: Herbert Jenkins. 1964

8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, illustrated dust-jacket by Payne with printed price 15/- to front flap; pp. 219, [4]; some very minor wear to edges of jacket, bottom and top edges of boards a little bumped, a little spotting to edges of textblock; near fine.

First UK edition, first printing of Wodehouse’s novel set in the publishing world, featuring the return of Percy Pilbeam and Monty Bodkin.

Biffen stands to inherit millions from his grandfather, provided he avoids arrest before his thirtieth birthday. The fortune will otherwise pass to the publishing magnate Lord Tilbury, setting in motion a series of complications involving the familiar casts of Wodehouse characters.

The novel was published a month earlier in the US under the alternative title Biffen’s Millions.

McIlvaine A87b.

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