French Leave.
by WODEHOUSE, P. G
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Herbert Jenkins,, 1956. First edition, first impression, preceding the US edition of 1959. For the novel, Wodehouse adapted the stage play Three Blind Mice (1938) by Guy Bolton, his lifelong friend and collaborator. He also novelized two other Bolton plays as The Small Bachelor (1927) and Ring for Jeeves (1953), the latter based on Come On, Jeeves (1952) - Bolton's homage to Wodehouse's best-known character. Octavo. Original red boards, spine lettered in black. With dust jacket. Head of spine and top corners lightly bumped, inner hinges starting, browning to rear endpapers; rubbed jacket a touch soiled, edges nicked and creased, unclipped: a very good copy in like jacket. McIlvaine A78a.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 169317
- Title
- French Leave.
- Author
- WODEHOUSE, P. G
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Herbert Jenkins,
- Date Published
- 1956
Terms of Sale
Peter Harrington
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- First Edition
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- Soiled
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- Jacket
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....