{"product_id":"wodehouse-p-g-nothing-serious-1","title":"WODEHOUSE, P.G. Nothing Serious.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eWodehouse’s ‘Most Hilarious Stories’\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e Nothing Serious. \u003ci\u003eNew York: Doubleday and Company\u003c\/i\u003e. 1951.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, lettered in black to spine, fore-edge untrimmed, illustrated dust-jacket by Frank Ford with printed price $2.00 to front flap; pp. 222, [2 (blank)]; jacket a little sunned with some light spotting to whites of jacket, edges a little creased with a few short closed tears, pushing with a minor wear to cloth at spine ends, spotting to top-edge of textblock; paper clip marking to top-edges of pp. 1–8; very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst US edition, first printing of a collection of ten short stories featuring Bingo Little and Freddie Widgeon at Blandings Castle.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe story ‘Bramley is So Bracing’ was first collected in \u003ci\u003eEggs, Beans and Crumpets\u003c\/i\u003e (1940) and was the last Wodehouse story ever published in \u003ci\u003eThe Strand,\u003c\/i\u003e in December 1940. It had previously been published in the US in \u003ci\u003eThe Saturday Evening Post\u003c\/i\u003e on 28 October 1939. Other stories in this collection had appeared in \u003ci\u003eThis Week, Argosy, The National Home Monthly, The Cosmopolitan,\u003c\/i\u003e but three stories are published for the first time in this collection: ‘The Shadow Passes’, ‘Up from the Depths’, and ‘How’s That, Umpire?’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcllvaine A70b.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2126236\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64900375871865,"sku":"2126236","price":75.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2126236.jpg?v=1792136075","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/wodehouse-p-g-nothing-serious-1","provider":"Sotheran's","version":"1.0","type":"link"}