{"product_id":"wodehouse-p-g-heavy-weather","title":"WODEHOUSE, P.G. Heavy Weather.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eTrouble at Blandings\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e Heavy Weather. \u003ci\u003eBoston: Little, Brown, \u0026amp; Company\u003c\/i\u003e. 1933.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Publisher’s black cloth, spine and upper board lettered and decorated in red, in the illustrated dust-jacket by May Wilson Preston (\u003ci\u003esee below\u003c\/i\u003e) 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, first printing of the fourth novel in the Blandings Castle series.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMcIlvaine attributes the dust-jacket design to May Wilson Preston, who also illustrated the \u003ci\u003eSaturday Evening Post\u003c\/i\u003e serialisation of \u003ci\u003eHeavy Weather\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcllvaine A50a.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2126114\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64900401267065,"sku":"2126114","price":500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2126114.jpg?v=1792136701","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/wodehouse-p-g-heavy-weather","provider":"Sotheran's","version":"1.0","type":"link"}