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Wodehouse, P. G.. Blandings Castle. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1935.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Green cloth over boards. Some wear on edges. Spine faded. Edges are a little age toned. Clean throughout.
Seller: Bearly Read Books, Sudbury, MA, U.S.A.
P. G. Wodehouse. Blandings Castle. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, New York, 1935.
Price: US$52.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, first printing in green cloth over boards. Dust Jacket missing. Some rubbing and discoloration to covers. Spine fading. Deckled long fore edge. Stamp of former owner inside front cover. Pages very lightly toned, but very clean and legible. Strongly bound.
Seller: John and Tabitha's Kerriosity Bookshop, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P. G.. Blandings Castle. DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & CO. INC., GARDEN CITY, 1935.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: STATED FIRST bumped front upper corner, no bookplate. foxing endpapers & inside covers. general wear and rubbed cover. tight binding. DATE PUBLISHED: 1935 EDITION: FIRST 311
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P. G.. Blandings Castle. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Garden City, 1935.
Price: US$82.50 + shipping
Description: First printing. Octavo (20cm). Green cloth, stamped in darker green in front and spine, top edge stained green; plain endpapers; [viii],311pp. A straight, tight copy, lightly faded at spine, rubbed at head, tail, and corners, endpapers browned, internally clean: Very Good. MCILVAINE A53b.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P.G.. Blandings Castle. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, Garden City, 1935.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Early Printing. Near Fine in a Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), generally rubbed and bumped, multiple creases and tears to the top edge. Green buckram, pushed at the head and foot of the spine. Square and firmly bound with a green top stain, clean internally. A collection of twelve stories, six of which take place in the titular location.
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.
P. G. Wodehouse. Blandings Castle. Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: [As per McIlvaine: A53b. Reissued in orange covers. First edition notice on copyright page.] Book is in very poor condition, reading copy only. Dust jacket is glued on to the covers. Wear to the dust jacket and covers. Damage to the top and bottom of the spine. Edgewear. Ink writing on the front flap of the dust jacket and on the front endpaper. Rubber stamp "#994" on the front endpaper. Ink inscription of former owner's name and address on the inside of the front endpaper. Foxing and stains throughout the book. 11 rubber stamps on the back endpaper. Please see our other P. G. Wodehouse Listings.
Seller: CKR Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada
Wodehouse, P. G. Blandings castle. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1935.
Price: US$249.30 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.; First Edition (1935). VII+311 pages. NearFine Hardcover, no dj. Green cloth, Black stamping and lettering. No Wear. Signature on the Flyleaf otherwise Clean Unmarked throughout. Strong Tight binding, perfect hinges. 8.8"x5.4"x1.25". be26689.
Seller: Saul54, Lynn, MA, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P.G.. Blandings Castle And Elsewhere. Doubleday Doran, New York, 1935.
Price: US$449.22 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 311. Original light green boards, lettered in dark green to spine. Yellow endpapers. Leading edge uncut. Illustrated dustwrapper. Small ownership signature to ffep., spine a little dulled and with some wear to spine ends, offsetting to endpapers. A better than very good copy in a very good dustwrapper, historical water staining affecting rear panel near spine, and with very slight chipping to head of spine. Illustrated dustwrapper by Roese. First US edition, published five months after its UK counterpart. McIlvaine A53b
Seller: Neil Pearson Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
WODEHOUSE, P.G.. Blandings Castle. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Garden City, 1935.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition. Small neat owner name front fly, and some faint toning in the gutters, very good or better in near very good dust jacket modest chipping mostly at the spine ends, affecting the title lettering. A reasonably nice copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P. G.. Blandings Castle. Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1935, 1935.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Description: Published in New York by Doubleday, Doran & Co. in 1935. First edition. Copyright page states "FIRST EDITION." Book near fine, with slight wear at spine ends, slight darkening on spine, some discoloration on end-papers, previous owner's signature on front free end-paper. DJ very good, except for tiny pieces missing at spine ends and corners, two tiny pieces missing at top of front and also at top of back, 2" tear at top of front, a few small nicks along top of back, tearing along bottom 1/3 of rear joint, rubbing lines near top of front and back, very slight fading on spine. DJ price reads "$2.00."
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
P. G. Wodehouse. Blandings Castle. Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: [As per McIlvaine: A53b. Published: 20 September 1935.] Book is in good condition. Dust jacket protected with Mylar. Some wear, chipping, and creasing on the dust jacket. Some tears on the dust jacket. Some wear to the covers. Spine has faded. Wear to the spine. Foxing on the endpapers and on some of the pages. Pages are jagged. Please see our other P. G. Wodehouse Listings.
Seller: CKR Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 312 pages with deckle fore edge. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's green cloth with dark green lettering to spine and pictorial emblem to front cover corner in pictorial jacket. (Jasen: 53a; McIlvaine: pages 68-69) First American edition. Blandings Castle and Elsewhere is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published in the United Kingdom on 12 April 1935 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and, as Blandings Castle, in the United States on 20 September 1935 by Doubleday Doran, New York. All the stories had previously appeared in Strand Magazine (UK) and all except the last in various US magazines. The first six stories all take place at the book's namesake Blandings Castle; they are set some time between the events of Leave it to Psmith (1923) and those of Summer Lightning (1929). The seventh concerns Bobbie Wickham, an acquaintance and sometime fiancee of Bertie Wooster, and the last five are narrated by Mr Mulliner. The master of Blandings is, nominally at least, Lord Emsworth. Clarence, the ninth Earl, is an amiably absent-minded old chap, who is charming because of his slow, relaxed lifestyle and the simple obsessions that make him oblivious to the absurd melodrama of his family, namely his home, gardens, pumpkins, and his champion pig, Empress of Blandings. He is never happier than when pottering about the grounds on a fine sunny day. Lord Emsworth's ten sisters (all of whom look like the "daughter of a hundred earls", except for Hermione, who looks like a cook), his brother Galahad ("Gally"), his daughter Mildred, his sons Freddie and George, and his numerous nieces, nephews, and in-laws inhabit the castle from time to time. For the Threepwood family, and their friends, the castle is forever available for indefinite residence, and is occasionally used as a temporary prison known as "Devil's Island" or "The Bastille" for love-struck young men and ladies to calm down. Blandings Castle, lying in the picturesque Vale of Blandings, Shropshire, England, is two miles from the town of Market Blandings, home to at least nine pubs, most notably the Emsworth Arms. The castle is a noble pile, of Early Tudor building ("its history is recorded in England's history books and Viollet-le-Duc has written of its architecture", according to Something Fresh). One of England's largest stately homes, it dominates the surrounding country, standing on a knoll of rising ground at the southern end of the celebrated Vale of Blandings; the Severn gleams in the distance. From its noble battlements, the Wrekin can be seen. The house has numerous guest rooms, many of which haven't been used since Queen Elizabeth roamed the country. Of those still in use, the Garden Room is the finest, usually given to the most prestigious guest; it has a balcony outside its French windows, which can be easily accessed via a handy drainpipe. The main library has a smaller library leading off it, and windows overlooking some flowerbeds; it is here that Lord Emsworth is often to be found on wet days, his nose deep in an improving tome of country lore, his favorite being Whiffle on The Care of the Pig. Condition: Small split at spine head, corners lightly rubbed. Jacket spine ends lightly chipped, some closed edge tears, closed tear at front head hinge with a crease, price clipped else a better than very good copy in a very good jacket.
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.