WODEHOUSE, P.G. Quick Service.

The Portrait Plot

WODEHOUSE, P.G. Quick Service. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co. 1940.

8vo. Publisher’s beige cloth, lettered and decorated in black to spine and upper, top-edge red, illustrated dust-jacket by Donald McKay with printed price $2.00 to front flap, publisher’s codes (‘3709–40’, ‘3373–40’, and ‘796–40’) as called for my McIlvaine; jacket worn with some creasing, chipping and closed tears, offsetting and toning to endpapers, spotting to preliminaries and endpapers with some light and infrequent spots throughout; very good.

First US edition in book form, first printing of Wodehouse’s comic novel that follows James Duff’s schemes to obtain a portrait by making a deal with the young Lord Holbeton.

The novel was first serialised in America in The Saturday Evening Post from 4 May to 22 June 1940, with illustrations by Gilbert Bundy. It was not serialised in the UK. It was first published in the UK on 4 October 1940, and later in the US in book form on 27 December 1940.

McIlvaine A63b.

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