Piccadilly Jim
by WODEHOUSE, P.G
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1917. 8vo, pp. 363. Original orange boards, lettered in black to front panel and spine. Lacking the dustwrapper. Small bookseller's label to rear pastedown. A fine copy. Frontispiece and seven full-page illustrations by May Wilson Preston. First edition, preceding the UK edition which did not appear until the following year. A very fine copy. McIlvaine A-20a
Synopsis
Piccadilly Jim is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the U.S. on February 24, 1917 by Dodd, Mean and Co. , New York, and in the U.K. in May 1918 by Herbert Jenkins, London. The story had previously appeared in the U.S. in the Saturday Evening Post between June and November 1916. The novel features Ogden Ford and his mother Nesta (both previously encountered in The Little Nugget). Nesta has remarried, to the hen-pecked, baseball-loving millionaire Mr.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Neil Pearson Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2634
- Title
- Piccadilly Jim
- Author
- WODEHOUSE, P.G
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: Dodd, Mead, 1917
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Modern First Editions
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- Spine
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- Dustwrapper
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- Fine
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