WODEHOUSE, P.G. The Brinkmanship of Galahad Threepwood.

From Prison to Blandings

WODEHOUSE, P.G. The Brinkmanship of Galahad Threepwood. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1964.

8vo. Publisher’s quarter yellow cloth over mustard paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt and blue to spine with blue illustration to upper board, top-edge of textblock yellow, illustrated dust-jacket by John Alcorn with printed price $4.50 to front flap; pp. 223, [1]; a bright and fresh jacket, a little pushing to spine ends and bumping to corners, yellow top-edge a little faded; near fine.

First edition, first printing of the ninth full-length novel set at Blandings Castle.

First published in the US issued in the UK eight months later under the title Galahad at Blandings, the novel opens with the action in a New York prison before returning to Blandings. It continues the story of Tipton Plimsoll and Veronica Wedge, first introduced in New Moon (1947).

Mcllvaine A88a.

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