SUMMER MOONSHINE. by Wodehouse, P.G. (Pelham Grenville.)

McCelland & Stewart, Toronto, (1938), first Canadian edition. 312 pp, small 8vo (7 3/4" h), hard cover (orange/red cloth with black lettering on spine and front board) - no dust jacket. "An Englishman's home may be his castle, but to Sir Buckstone Abbott, Walsinford Hall was nothing but a blot on the landscape. With its glazed red bricks, its dome and minarets, it so jarred upon his sensitive soul that it was his avowed intention to unload the unsightly pile on the first prospective buyer. His chance came when the Princess von und zu Dwornitzchek expressed the opinion that the Hall was 'cute' and began toying with the idea of purchasing it. And Sir Buckstone, desperately anxious lest she should change her mind, spared no effort to 'lush her up and keep her sweet'...This is a novel in the traditional Wodehouse manner, a story of complex situtation that will reduce the reader to tears of delight." Interior - small foxing mark in margin of page 224. Exterior - book lightly cocked, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, tiny tears at bottom of spine, light browning to edges of textblock, a few very small light stains on boards, very small foxing mark on fore-edge of textblock. VG-.