WODEHOUSE, P.G. Full Moon.

Portraits of Pigs and Other Antics

WODEHOUSE, P.G. Full Moon. Garden City: Doubleday & Company. 1947.

8vo. Publisher’s turquoise cloth lettered and decorated in black to spine, illustrated dust-jacket by Paul Galdone with printed price $2.00 to front flap; pp. 276, [4 (blank)], with black-and-white in-text illustrations throughout; wear to jacket with some loss including to front panel (c. 50 x 12 mm) affecting illustration, tape repairs to verso, lower right corner of upper board slightly bumped, pushing to spine ends, a little spotting to edges of textblock; previous owner’s name to front free endpaper; very good.

First edition, first printing of the sixth full-length novel to be set at the idyllic, but troubled, Blandings Castle.

The hapless Lord Emsworth is playing host for his son Freddie, but his problems are only deepened by the romantic entanglements of his nieces. Meanwhile, a sleazy American businessman, portraits of pigs, and a stolen necklace throws the tranquility of Blandings Castle into chaos.

The novel was first published in the US on 22 May 1947, and in the UK on 17 October 1947. It was later condensed for serialisation in November 1947, for Liberty in the US.

Mcllvaine A66a.

SKU: 2126311