{"product_id":"wodehouse-p-g-quick-service","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\u003eGarden City: Doubleday, Doran \u0026amp; Co.\u003c\/i\u003e 1940.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst 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.\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 A63b.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2126279\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64900354802041,"sku":"2126279","price":350.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2126279.jpg?v=1792135672","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/wodehouse-p-g-quick-service","provider":"Sotheran's","version":"1.0","type":"link"}