WODEHOUSE, P.G. Heavy Weather.

Trouble at Blandings

WODEHOUSE, P.G. Heavy Weather. Boston: Little, Brown, & Company. 1933.

8vo. Publisher’s black cloth, spine and upper board lettered and decorated in red, in the illustrated dust-jacket by May Wilson Preston (see below) with printed price of $2.00 to front flap; pp. [4], 314, [2 (blank)]; some wear to jacket edges and chipping to spine ends and corners, two tape repairs to verso at head of spine, pushing to spine ends; endpapers lightly toned, but internally clean and bright; a very good copy; neat contemporary Christmas gift inscription to front endpaper, dated 1933.

First edition, first printing of the fourth novel in the Blandings Castle series.

The novel follows Monty Bodkin as he becomes caught up in the romantic and financial troubles of the inhabitants of Blandings Castle, while Lord Emsworth fears that Parsloe-Parsloe plans to spoil his prize-winning pig, only adding to Bodkin’s predicament.

McIlvaine attributes the dust-jacket design to May Wilson Preston, who also illustrated the Saturday Evening Post serialisation of Heavy Weather, its first appearance, published between 27 May to 15 July 1933. In 1988, the novel was adapted as a radio drama as part of the BBC Blandings radio series.

Mcllvaine A50a.

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