WODEHOUSE, P.G. Heavy Weather.

Bodkin at Blandings

WODEHOUSE, P.G. Heavy Weather. London: Herbert Jenkins. 1933.

8vo. Publisher’s dark blue cloth, spine and upper board lettered in orange within orange border, in the illustrated dust-jacket designed by K. B. Studio with printed price of 7/6 to front flap; pp. 311, [1 (blank)], [8 (publisher’s advertisements)]; slight wear to jacket at joints and extremities, spotting to verso of jacket and edges of textblock; title-page foxed, else very good.

First edition, first printing, 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.

Heavy Weather initially appeared as a serial in the The Saturday Evening Post in eight parts between 27 May to 15 July 1933 with illustrations by May Wilson Preston. In 1988, the novel was adapted as a radio drama as part of the BBC Blandings radio series.

Mcllvaine A50b.

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