WODEHOUSE, P.G. Full Moon.

Chaos at Blandings

WODEHOUSE, P.G. Full Moon. London: Herbert Jenkins. 1947.

8vo. Publisher’s orange cloth lettered in black to spine and upper, illustrated dust-jacket by Frank Ford with printed price 8/6 to front flap; pp. 252; ; a crisp and bright example of the jacket with only very minor wear, toning and spotting to top-edge of textblock; a few light spots to endpapers; near fine.

First UK 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 A66b.

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