WODEHOUSE, P.G. The Cat-Nappers: A Jeeves and Bertie Story.

A Farewell to Jeeves and Wooster

WODEHOUSE, P.G. The Cat-Nappers: A Jeeves and Bertie Story. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1974.

8vo. Publisher’s brown boards, lettered in gilt to spine and black decoration of a cat to upper board, in the illustrated dust-jacket by Norman Green with the printed price $6.95 to front flap; pp. 190, [2 (blank)]; bright crisp jacket, pushing to spine ends and wear to edges of boards, light spotting to edges of textblock; very good.

First US edition, first printing of the last Jeeves and Wooster novel.

The book was first published in the UK in October 1974, under the alternative title Aunts Aren’t Gentlemen, the US edition followed five months later on 14 April 1975. It is the final novel to feature the hapless Bertie Wooster and his ever resourceful valet, Jeeves.

Mcllvaine A97b.

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