{"product_id":"wodehouse-p-g-uncle-fred-in-the-springtime","title":"WODEHOUSE, P.G. Uncle Fred in the Springtime.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003ePorcine Plot at Blandings\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e Uncle Fred in the Springtime. \u003ci\u003eLondon: Herbert Jenkins Limited.\u003c\/i\u003e 1939.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Publisher’s dark red cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, publisher’s device blind stamped to lower board, illustrated dust-jacket by ‘Fenwick’ priced at 7\/6 to spine, top-edge red; pp. 311, [5]; wear to dust-jacket leading to some loss of jacket to foot of spine (\u003ci\u003ec.\u003c\/i\u003e 25 x 60 mm) extending to rear panel, small portion of top end of spine of dust-jacket detached; closed tear to rear panel (\u003ci\u003ec.\u003c\/i\u003e 50 mm) a little toned with a small stain to rear panel, red top-edge a little faded, a few spots to fore-edge; light offsetting to endpapers, but otherwise internally clean; very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst UK edition, first printing, the fifth full-length novel in Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle series.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLord Emsworth is desperate to protect his prize-winning pig, the Empress of Blandings, from the slimming plans of the Duke of Dunstable. To keep her safe, Emsworth calls upon Uncle Fred to come to Blandings Castle and secretly ‘steal’ the pig to keep her safe. Meanwhile, Pongo, Fred’s nephew, is sinking deeper into gambling debt, while Horace Davenport finds himself in trouble with his fiancée. Luckily for both, Uncle Fred’s charming chaos arrives just in time to turn their fortunes around.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe story was first serialised in America in \u003ci\u003eThe Saturday Evening Post\u003c\/i\u003e from 22 April to 27 May 1939, and was illustrated by James Williamson. It was not serialised in the UK. It was first published in book form in the US on 18 August 1939, and the UK edition followed seven days later on 25 August.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcllvaine A6lb.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2126288\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64900349165945,"sku":"2126288","price":600.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2126288.jpg?v=1792135583","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/wodehouse-p-g-uncle-fred-in-the-springtime","provider":"Sotheran's","version":"1.0","type":"link"}