WODEHOUSE, P.G. Ice in the Bedroom.

With the First Appearance in Print

WODEHOUSE, P.G. Ice in the Bedroom. London: Herbert Jenkins. 1961. [offered with:] WODEHOUSE, P.G. ‘Ice in the Bedroom’, in Star Weekly Novel. Toronto. 5 November 1960.

[offered with:]

WODEHOUSE, P.G. ‘Ice in the Bedroom’, in Star Weekly Novel. Toronto. 5 November 1960.

Ice in the Bedroom: 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, lettered in black to spine (McIlvaine’s variant binding), price-clipped illustrated dust-jacket lettered in white with publisher’s name in blue to spine; pp. 223, [1]; a bright jacket, previous bookseller’s ticket to rear panel, repriced with a small sticker, light spotting to edges of textblock; near fine.

Star Weekly Novel: Folio (360 x 275 mm); pp. 11, [1], with front-page illustration by Douglas Sneyd; creased where folded, pages lightly toned, front page a little soiled with hole at fold; overall very good.

First UK edition, first printing, offered with a copy of the Star Weekly, the weekend magazine of the Toronto Star newspaper, in which the story was originally published in a condensed version.

The novel features Drones members Freddie Widgeon and Oofy Prosser, and another outing for Chimp Twist. Following its appearance in the Star Weekly, the story was first published in book form in London by Herbert Jenkins.

Mcllvaine A84b2.

SKU: 2126197