WODEHOUSE, P.G. Mulliner Nights.

‘The Old Master at his Richest’

WODEHOUSE, P.G. Mulliner Nights. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company. 1933.

8vo. Publisher’s orange cloth, lettered in black to upper and spine with black illustration to spine, top-edge red, fore-edge untrimmed, illustrated dust-jacket by James Montgomery Flagg with printed price $2.00 to front flap with publisher’s code ‘151’ to back panel, and ‘969’ to back flap as called for by McIlvaine; pp. [6], 312; loss to front panel of jacket (35 x 33 mm) and chipping to spine ends both affecting illustration, wear to edges and chipping to corners; light offsetting to endpapers, with a contemporary ownership note to front free endpaper; a very good copy in a fair jacket.

First US edition, first printing 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 present US edition was published on 15 February 1933, and was preceded by the UK edition which was released a month earlier on 17 January 1933.

Mcllvaine A48b.

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