WODEHOUSE, P.G. The Girl in Blue.

Gainsborough Regained

WODEHOUSE, P.G. The Girl in Blue. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1940.

8vo. Publisher’s light blue cloth, spine and upper board lettered and decorated in silver, fore-edge untrimmed, in the illustrated dust-jacket by Osbert Lancaster priced at $5.95 with publisher’s code ‘20802’ to rear panel as called for by McIlvaine; pp. 190, [2 (blank)]; very light toning to jacket spine, a little spotting to edges of textblock, slight pushing to spine ends; very good.

First US edition, first printing of the novel following Jerry West, who falls in love with a flight attendant but must recover a missing Gainsborough miniature before he is able to marry her.

The UK edition was published on 29 October 1970, and it was followed by the US edition a few months later on 22 February 1971.

Mcllvaine A93b.

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