WODEHOUSE, P.G. Mulliner Nights.

Mr Mulliner on Family Woes

WODEHOUSE, P.G. Mulliner Nights. London: Herbert Jenkins Limited. 1933.

8vo. Publisher’s orange cloth, spine and boards lettered and decorated in black, illustrated second-printing dust-jacket priced 2/6 to spine and 7/6 to front flap (identical to the first-issue jacket with the exception of the additional price added to the spine); pp. 312, [8 (publisher’s advertisements)]; wear to jacket at edges and hinges with some chipping to spine ends and corners, closed tears including one to foot of front panel (c. 21 mm), sunning to spine spotting to verso of jacket, sunning and discolouration of cloth to spine; very good.

First edition, first printing, with a second printing dust-jacket, of the third short-story collection featuring Mr Mulliner.

In these nine stories, Mulliner regales his listeners with tales of the trials and tribulations of his family. All the stories had previously been published in the UK in The Strand from June 1930 to June 1932, and in the US in various issues of American Magazine from October 1931 to April 1932, and Cosmopolitan from May 1930 to to April 1931. The stories were first published in book form in the UK on 17 January 1933, and the US edition followed on 15 February 1933.

Mcllvaine A48a.

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