WODEHOUSE, P.G. Something Fishy.

The Butler Saves the Day

WODEHOUSE, P.G. Something Fishy. London: Herbert Jenkins. 1957.

8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, lettered in black to spine, in the price-clipped, illustrated dust-jacket illustrated by Sax; pp. 199, [1 (blank)]; jacket repriced with purple stamp to front flap at ‘6/6d’, a little wear to edges of jacket, but illustration remains bright, light spotting to edges of textblock; very good; small bookseller’s ticket (Foyles, Charing Cross Road) to front pastedown.

First edition, first printing, published in the US ten days later as The Butler Did It.

The story centres on a tontine established by a group of wealthy American financiers shortly before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. Years later, the butler of these men, who overheard all their scheming, attempts to help his previous impoverished employer and his niece Jane.

Mcllvaine A80a.

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