Money for Nothing
by P. G. Wodehouse
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Clarence, New York, United States
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About This Item
This book is in good plus condition Minor bumping to both ends of spine. Heavy sunning on spine. Moderate scuffing on both boards. Minor staining on both boards. rear hinge cracked.
The action is mostly set at Rudge Hall, home to miser Lester Carmody, and at Healthward Ho, a health farm run by "Chimp" Twist, along with his cohorts "Soapy" and "Dolly" Molloy, who all previously appeared in Sam the Sudden (1925), and returned in Money in the Bank (1946).
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Inventory #(N5-95).
Synopsis
'You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour.' Stephen FryA P.G. Wodehouse novel.The peaceful slumber of the Worcester village of Rudge-in-the-Vale is about to be rudely disrupted. First there's a bitter feud between peppery Colonel Wyvern and the Squire of Rudge Hall, rich but miserly Lester Carmody. Second, that arch-villain Chimp Twist has opened a health farm - and he and Soapy and Dolly Molloy are planning a fake burglary so Lester can diddle his insurance company. After the knockout drops are served, things get a little complicated. But will Lester's nephew John win over his true love, Colonel Wyvern's daughter Pat, and restore tranquillity to the idyll? It's a close-run thing...
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ernestoic Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4338
- Title
- Money for Nothing
- Author
- P. G. Wodehouse
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1928
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- Hinge
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- Fine
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- Cracked
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- 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....