WODEHOUSE, P.G. Summer Moonshine.

Repriced for Wartime

WODEHOUSE, P.G. Summer Moonshine. London: Herbert Jenkins. 1938.

8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, lettered in black to upper board and spine, top-edge red, first issue dust-jacket illustrated by ‘Fenwick’ repriced with a publisher’s sticker at ‘3/’ to include ‘war extra costs’; pp. 312, [8 (publisher’s advertisements)]; old tape repairs to verso of jacket, wear and creasing to jacket edges, boards slightly cocked, some spotting to edges of textblock, half-title spotted and slightly soiled, lighter spotting to title and last few leaves, rear endpaper creased; very good.

First UK edition in book form, first printing of the novel following the schemes of financially strapped Sir Buckstone Abbott as he attempts to lease his Berkshire estate to a wealthy American businessman.

The US book form edition was published on 8 October 1937, several months before the UK edition of 11 February 1938, owing to the delayed British serialisation in Pearson’s Magazine. In the US, the novel was first serialised in The Saturday Evening Post 24 July and 11 September 1937, with illustrations by Wallace Morgan.

Mcllvaine A59b.

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