WODEHOUSE, P.G. Ice in the Bedroom.

Presented to the ‘Prince of Publishers’

WODEHOUSE, P.G. Ice in the Bedroom. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1961.

8vo. Publisher’s quarter cloth over black paper-covered boards, spine lettered in red, yellow, and white with a facsimile signature in yellow to upper board, illustrated dust-jacket by Paul Bacon with the printed price of $3.75 to front flap, top-edge of textblock stained yellow; pp. [6], 246; a little sunning to jacket spine, with slight chipping to spine ends, a bright copy; near fine; authorial inscription ‘To Peter | the Prince of Publishers | from | Plum | P.G. Woodhouse | Jan 19, 1961’ in blue ink to front free endpaper (see below).

First edition in book form, first printing, this copy warmly inscribed by Wodehouse to his friend and US editor Peter Schwed (1911–2003), ‘Prince of Publishers’.

The novel features Drones members Freddie Widgeon and Oofy Prosser, and another outing for Chimp Twist. The story was originally published, in a condensed version, in Canada in the magazine Star Weekly, the weekend supplement of the Toronto Star newspaper, on 11 November 1960.

Mcllvaine A84a.

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