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WODEHOUSE, P.G. Summer Moonshine. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company. 1937.
8vo. Publisher’s yellow cloth, lettered and illustrated in green to spine, fore-edge untrimmed, illustrated dust-jacket by ‘Roese’ priced $2.00 to front flap with publisher’s code ‘103–37’ to rear panel as called for by McIlvaine; pp. [10], 322; a few small chips to dust-jacket, markings to white portions of jacket with minute hole to spine, a few small marks to cloth; near fine; inscription in green ink to front free endpaper to an unknown recipient ‘with best wishes for a speedy recovery from Scouts and Scouters, Division E’, dated February 1938.
First 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 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 between 24 July and 11 September 1937, with illustrations by Wallace Morgan.
Mcllvaine A59a.
SKU: 2126281
WODEHOUSE, P.G. Summer Moonshine. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company. 1937.
8vo. Publisher’s yellow cloth, lettered and illustrated in green to spine, fore-edge untrimmed, illustrated dust-jacket by ‘Roese’ priced $2.00 to front flap with publisher’s code ‘103–37’ to rear panel as called for by McIlvaine; pp. [10], 322; a few small chips to dust-jacket, markings to white portions of jacket with minute hole to spine, a few small marks to cloth; near fine; inscription in green ink to front free endpaper to an unknown recipient ‘with best wishes for a speedy recovery from Scouts and Scouters, Division E’, dated February 1938.
First 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 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 between 24 July and 11 September 1937, with illustrations by Wallace Morgan.
Mcllvaine A59a.
SKU: 2126281
