{"product_id":"wodehouse-p-g-nothing-serious","title":"WODEHOUSE, P.G. Nothing Serious.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eWith Three New Stories\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e Nothing Serious. \u003ci\u003eLondon: Herbert Jenkins\u003c\/i\u003e. 1950.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Publisher’s orange cloth lettered in black to spine and upper board with publisher’s device to lower board, in the illustrated dust-jacket by Frank Ford with printed price 8\/6 to front flap; pp. 254, [1 (publisher’s advertisement)], [1 (blank)]; wear to jacket with loss to rear panel (\u003ci\u003ec.\u003c\/i\u003e 17 x 20 mm) but the illustration to front panel remains bright, spotting to edges of textblock; toning and offsetting to endpapers; very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst 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 A70a.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2126250\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64900368335225,"sku":"2126250","price":225.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2126250.jpg?v=1792135955","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/wodehouse-p-g-nothing-serious","provider":"Sotheran's","version":"1.0","type":"link"}