WODEHOUSE, P.G. The Luck of the Bodkins.

Abridged for American Readers

WODEHOUSE, P.G. The Luck of the Bodkins. Boston: Little, Brown & Company.

8vo. Publisher’s green cloth, lettered and ruled in dark blue to upper board and spine, price-clipped illustrated dust-jacket by Alan Foster; pp. [4], 298 , [2 (blank)]; wear and chips to dust-jacket with loss to front panel and spine ends affecting illustration, title, and publisher, small tape repair to head of spine to verso of jacket, light red stain (from jacket ink) to rear panel, some spotting to edges of textblock; a very good copy in a fair jacket.

First edition thus in book form, first printing of the novel set aboard an ocean liner bound for New York, following the amiable Monty Bodkin as he attempts to win back his fiancée, Gertrude Butterwick.

The novel was first serialised in the UK in The Passing Show Magazine from 21 September to 23 November 1935. Wodehouse then substantially revised the story for its American publication, shortening the text and simplifying aspects of the plot. This revised version was serialised in The Red Book from August 1935 to January 1936, and Little, Brown & Co. subsequently used the revised text for the present US book edition rather than the longer, original English version.

Mcllvaine A54b.

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