{"product_id":"wodehouse-p-g-quick-service-1","title":"WODEHOUSE, P.G. Quick Service.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eThe Portrait Plot\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e Quick Service. \u003ci\u003eLondon: Herbert Jenkins\u003c\/i\u003e. 1940.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Publisher’s dark red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrated dust-jacket by Fenwick with printed price 7\/6 to spine; pp. 252, [4 (publisher’s advertisements)]; wear to edges and chipping with loss to front panel (\u003ci\u003ec.\u003c\/i\u003e 8 x 22 mm) and spine (\u003ci\u003ec.\u003c\/i\u003e 9 x 12 mm), closed tears, slightly cocked, pushing to spine ends; offsetting to pastedowns and endpapers; very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe novel was first serialised in America in \u003ci\u003eThe Saturday Evening Post\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcIlvaine A63a.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2126222\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64900379672953,"sku":"2126222","price":350.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2126222.jpg?v=1792136261","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/wodehouse-p-g-quick-service-1","provider":"Sotheran's","version":"1.0","type":"link"}