Carry On, Jeeves (The Collector's Wodehouse)
by WODEHOUSE, P.G
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Previous owner's rune bookplate to front pastedown, otherwise very near fine in fine dust jacket.
- Seller
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Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
P. G. WODEHOUSE wrote more than ninety novels and some three hundred short stories over 73 years. Perhaps best known for the escapades of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, Wodehouse also created the world of Blandings Castle, home to Lord Emsworth and his cherished pig, the Empress of Blandings. His stories include gems concerning the irrepressible and disreputable Ukridge; Psmith, the elegant socialist; the ever-so-slightly-unscrupulous Fifth Earl of Ickenham, better known as Uncle Fred; and those related by Mr Mulliner, the charming raconteur of The Angler’s Rest, and the Oldest Member at the Golf Club. In 1936 he was awarded The Mark Twain Medal for ‘having made an outstanding and lasting contribution to the happiness of the world’. He was made a Doctor of Letters by Oxford University in 1939 and in 1975, aged 93, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. He died shortly afterwards, on St Valentine’s Day.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Irving Book Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 409
- Title
- Carry On, Jeeves (The Collector's Wodehouse)
- Author
- WODEHOUSE, P.G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Previous owner's rune bookplate to front pastedown, otherwise very near fine in fine dust jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- The Overlook Press
- Place of Publication
- Woodstock
- Date Published
- 2003
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