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Wodehouse, P.G.. Heavy Weather. Little, Brown + Co., Boston, 1933.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Clean, frt. gutter split 2/3, cors. worn. Innards clean + tight, 4 pp. have tears on foredge margin. 314 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: General Eclectic Books, Gray, ME, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P.G.. Heavy Weather. Boston: Little, Brown and Co. 1933, Boston, 1933.
Price: US$18.75 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Black Cloth w/red Decor. -Good/No Jacket. Second Printing. Hardback. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 314 pages; book condition: the cover shows unmistakable signs of being bug bitten here and there on the spine and on most of the hinge area alongside (circa 5 sq. in. of bites) and another 1.5 sq.in. of affected area on the front cover, somewhat scattered; book edges are moderately foxed as are the pages of the text (intermittantly), including the title page and page opposite; front fly is stamped 'Library, Mountain Lake Club" (Stamp covering 0.75 x 1.75 in.); otherwise, cover title, author, etc. lettering is very legible, and Wodehouse is an even better read.
Seller: Jane Atwood, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P. G. Heavy weather. Little, Brown, and Co, 1933.
Price: US$19.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in publisher's black cloth. Red lettering. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Generally clean. Corners rubbed. Light wear.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P. G.. HEAVY WEATHER. Little, Brown, Boston, 1933.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: True first edition preceding the UK; When Lord Tilbury receives a letter from Galahad Threepwood stating he will no longer be publishing his memoir, he decides to travel to Blandings Castle and steal the manuscript. But he isnt the only one after the memoir. Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe and Lady Constance Keeble are also trying to lay their hands on it to prevent Ronnie Fish and Sue Brown from getting married. Monty Bodkin, Lord Emsworths new secretary, is also after the manuscript in order to secure a years employment at the Mammoth Publishing Company. Who will get their hands on the manuscript? Only the Empress of Blandings knows! ; 7.75 x 5 x 1 inches; 314 pages Very Good edition. Edge soil and spotting, 7-20-33" written near the gutter of front pastedown. Light water stain to first couple pages, not affecting text. Protected
Seller: Blackbird Bookshop, Trumbull, CT, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P. G.. Heavy Weather. Little, Brown, And Company, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 1933.
Price: US$24.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition (Published July, 1933). The Book Is Bound In Black Cloth With Orange Lettering And Vertical Lines On The Front And Spine. The Cover Is Edge Worn. Ownership Information Near The Upper Edge Of The Ffep. The Top Edges Are Dust Soiled. There Is A Faint Stain At The Front Spine Fold Near The Center.
Seller: Granada Bookstore, IOBA, Woodlawn, IL, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P G. HEAVY WEATHER. Little, Brown & Co, 1933.
Price: US$25.62 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ex Library 1st Edition, Hardback, no d/j. Boards have a faded and bumped spine bumping to corners and marks front and back, some stamps, o/w internally v/g
Seller: Joan Andrews, Alton, United Kingdom
p. g. wodehouse. heavy weather. little, brown, boston, 1933.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Black with red lettering and design on spine and front. Clean unmarked except for price in pencil on ffp. No wear with light corner bumps. Published July, 1933.
Seller: broken wing books, blaine, MN, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P. G.. Heavy Weather. Little Brown, Boston, 1933.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: This is a near fine, unmarked, hardcover first edition copy, black cloth binding with red lettering. published July, 1933. A lovely copy, alas, no DJ. Photos on request.
Seller: Reader's Corner, Inc., Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P.G.. Heavy Weather. Little, Brown, 1933.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Page edges a little dusty. No jacket.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P.G.. Heavy Weather. Little Brown & Company, 1933.
Price: US$36.61 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First edition copy. . No Dust Jacket Former Library book. Bookplate removed from pastedown. Numerous previous owners' names on front endpapers. Front flap of dust jacket glued to front free endpage. Author's name written on title page, but it is NOT his signature. Several pages missing; text begins with page 11. Library date stamps on rear endpage. (England, publishers, nobility, fiction)
Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.
P.G. Wodehouse. Heavy Weather. Little, Brown and Company, 1933.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Binding tight, content clean and straight with the exception of an erase mark on ffep that once was previous owner's name. Unclipped, illustrated dust jacket in good condition, creasing along spine and edges, minor chipping on corners and a few small closed tears, in protective mylar. If purchasing internationally, please inquire about shipping charges before purchase. Ships within 1-2 business days.
Seller: Kellogg Creek Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P.G.. Heavy Weather. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1933.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American edition. Contemporary bookplate and owner's name, else near fine without dustwrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P. G.. HEAVY WEATHER. Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1933.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [1st printing] July 1933. Black coth lettered and striped in red on front and spine; 314 pps. Owner's marks on ffep in pen; price stamp on rear ep; corner's coth worn; minor white spots (paint?) on front.
Seller: Books from the Crypt, N. Potomac, MD, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P.G.. HEAVY WEATHER. Little, Brown, BOSTON, 1933.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: U.S. precedes the U.K. first edition. Crisp and clean with owner's discreet signature in black and red boards, covered in a flawless facsmile dust jacket. A lovely copy of this laugh riot featuring Galahad Threepwood.
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P. G.. Heavy Weather. Little, Brown & Co, Boston, 1933.
Price: US$66.00 + shipping
Description: First printing. Octavo (19.5cm). Publisher's black cloth, stamped in red; plain endpapers; [iv],314pp. Straight and sound, rubbed, paper browning, discolored glue at gutter between half-title and title-page, else Very Good. The fourth full-length novel in the Blandings Castle series. The American edition preceded the first UK edition by two weeks. MCILVAINE A50a.1.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P.G.. HEAVY WEATHER. Little Brown, 1933.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 314pp Slight foxing
Seller: Austin Book Shop LLC, Richmond Hill, NY, U.S.A.
P.G. Wodehouse. Heavy Weather. Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1933.
Price: US$78.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Black cloth over boards, no dust jacket. Red border with author's name on front cover and spine. Red verticle lines on front and spine. Title on front cover, title and publisher on spine. A few very small ships to cloth and light shelf wear. Interior clean and clear. Copyright reads, "July, 1933." Predates the british edition. Very Good / Near Fine.
Seller: John and Tabitha's Kerriosity Bookshop, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P. G.. Heavy Weather. Little, Brown and Company, New York, 1933.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good plus first edition book in good plus dust jacket. Black cloth covered boards with red text and graphics on front panel and spine. Graphics at head of spine and the title are rubbed and with light white residue in several places on spine. Front and back panels each have a scrape and a gouge, more so on back panel. Head of board spine is softened and thinning and with a small tear with minimal fraying. Lower edge of front panel has a 1/4" rub through with fraying. All fore-edge corner tips are just barely rubbed through. Tiny red circle on FFEP in upper right corner else book is internally clean. Spine is starting to crack at the past pp. 314; text block remains sound. Dust jacket has shelf-wear soil overall and scrapes Spine has black smudge. Significant loss at lower edge of front panel with numerous adjacent creases and several closed tears. Front corner at tail of jacket spine has 2 1/8" irregular, roughly vertical closed tear along the front spine fold. Loss across head of jacket spine and carrying over to upper edges of front and back panels, approx. 2 3/4" by up to 1/4", with several adjacent closed tears of up to 1", many rubs and creases. Loss across lower edge at tail of jacket spine of up to 1/8", also rubbed. Upper right corner of front panel has 3/4" closed vertical tear along the fold with adjacent creasing. All folds are creased and rubbed; front fore-edge fold is rubbed through in several places. Fore-edge corner tips are rubbed with loss of up to 3/8". Price of $2.00 is intact on front inside flap. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition description. Additional photos available at your request. International sales to all countries other than the UK will require use of an alternative shipping company which will result in higher shipping expense. A signature upon receipt may also be required.
Seller: R & G Bliss Books, Excelsior, MN, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P.G.. Heavy Weather.. Bost. Little, Brown, & Co. 1933., 1933.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Scarce: only 12,000 cc printed. Precedes the first Lon. edition. G+/G+ in black cloth with red lettering and design in pictorial d/w heavily worn and chipped at extremities. The book has been exposed to a fire because the spine is blackened and there are smoke marks bleeding onto the inside flaps of the wrapper.The fore-edge of the book is also darkened. Still a place-holding copy in dustjacket until a better one comes along. First Edition.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
P G Wodehouse. Heavy Weather. Little Brown and Company, 1933.
Price: US$130.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A fine copy in VG+ wrapper which has 3 small chips on top edge unfaded spine with some creasing to flaps .It looks like the flaps have been stuck to a book ,not this one and then removed .They are complete but left with uneven surface . Good value and presents well
Seller: Dick Neal Fine Books, Booker Bay, NSW, Australia
P.G. Wodehouse. Heavy Weather. Little, Brown & Co, Boston, 1933.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, preceding the British by two weeks. Hardcover in black cloth stamped in red. 314 pp. A tight, fine example, 1937 ownership signature front pastedown, bit of light foxing to the fore edge of the text block. No jacket. The fourth novel to be set at Blandings Castle and a sequel to the 1929 "Summer Lightning". Herein are found the familiar Wodehouse characters---Lord Tilbury, Lady Constance Keeble, Lord Emsworth, the prize pig Empress of Blandings and so forth. Romantic entanglements, romantic confusions, a pilfered rare manuscript, a county fair lead to typical Wodehousian jocularity.
Seller: Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB), Bordentown, NJ, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P.G.. HEAVY WEATHER. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company,, 1933.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Precedes the U.K. edition. A fine copy in black decorative cloth, with rules, titles, and panels in red; in a new high quality FACSIMILE dust jacket. A Blandings novel in which Lord Emsworth's prize pig plays a pivotal role. The fourth in the Blandings series and a direct sequel to FISH PREFERRED.
Seller: BOOKFELLOWS Fine Books, ABAA, Sun City, AZ, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P. G.. Heavy Weather. Little Brown and Company, Boston, 1933.
Price: US$150.15 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: lord emsworth, monty bodkin and more and more/ need we say more.
Seller: Gumshoe Books, Columbia, SC, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P. G.. Heavy Weather - 1st edition. Little Brown & Co, 1933.
Price: US$159.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good only book with a slight lean, bookplate inside the front board, light foxing, front hinge is starting to crack, and edge wear, in a dust jacket with edge chips, mended tears with related creasing, rubbing, clipped corners, and edge wear. Original price of $2.00 is intact on the flap.
Seller: Bailey Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
P. G. Wodehouse. HEAVY WEATHER. Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1933.
Price: US$159.44 + shipping
Description: Very Good in boards. Front hinge cracked, rear hinge starting.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P. G.. Heavy Weather. Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1933.
Price: US$185.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good plus first edition book, in good plus dust jacket. Black cloth covered boards with red graphics, red-stamped lettering and black-stamped lettering against red backgrounds on front panel and spine. Boards are clean and lettering is crisp. Edges at head and tail of board spine are a bit softened, with small amount of crimping at the head and horizontal crease along lowermost edge at tail, both lightly scuffed. External page edges are lightly age-soiled. Previous owner's name on FFEP. Faint shadow transfers on end-papers. Book is internally clean and text block is snug. Dust jacket is soiled overall. Significant losses at head and tail of jacket spine - see photos. All jacket folds are creased and scuffed and close to rub-throughs in several places. Spine has vertical scuff down the center. Adjacent to the loss at the back corner at head of spine is a 3/4" closed vertical tear along the back spine fold. Upper left corner on back panel has loss of 3/8" by 1/4" and with adjacent closed slightly diagonal tear of 1 1/8". Lower left corner of back panel has a rough triangular loss of 1/2" by up to 5/8", with an adjacent 3/8" closed diagonal tear. Slightly to the right of the lower back fore-edge corner is a 3/8" closed vertical tear with a 2 3/4" adjacent diagonal crease, to the right and adjacent to a 1/8" closed vertical tear. Upper right fore-edge corner of front jacket panel has loss of 3/8" by 1/4" with adjacent closed diagonal tear of 1/2", which in turn has an adjacent diagonal crease of 1 1/8" to the upper edge. The lower edge of the front jacket panel has a 3/4" closed tear to the right of center. The lower right front fore-edge corner has loss of 3/8" by 3/16". Both upper and lower edges are chipped and rubbed and with shallow horizontal creases in addition to those described above. Not price clipped. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition descriptions. Additional photos available at your request. International sales to all countries other than the UK and Canada will require use of an alternative shipping company which will result in higher than the stated shipping costs. A signature upon receipt may also be required.
Seller: R & G Bliss Books, Excelsior, MN, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P. G.. Heavy Weather. Little Brown, Boston, 1933.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: This is a fine, unmarked, hardcover first edition copy, black cloth binding with red lettering. published July, 1933. A lovely copy in a not so lovely mylar protected DJ that is chipped along the top edge and a big chip at the bottom spine edge. Still a bright DJ with the original 2.00 price. Photos on request.
Seller: Reader's Corner, Inc., Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P.G.. Heavy Weather. Boston: Little, Brown, 1933, 1933.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Spine frayed; very good in dust jacket. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
P. G. Wodehouse. Heavy Weather. Little, Brown and Company, 1933.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Little, Brown & Co, Boston, 1933. Hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: good. First edition. First edition, preceding the British by two weeks. Hardcover in black cloth stamped in red. 314 pp. A tight, bright, fine example. In the original dust jacket which while bright has wear and chipping at the spine ends and redges, glue stained bookplate on front flyleaf and signature
Seller: Suibhne's Rare and Collectible Books, Newbury, OH, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P. G.. Heavy Weather. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1933.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good first edition in a very good dust jacket, with "Published July, 1933" stated on the copyright page and no mention of later printings. Original price of $2.00 still on front flap of jacket. Rear flap missing small piece at upper left corner. Precedes the first UK edition.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P. G.. Heavy Weather. Little Brown and Company, Bosto, 1933.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first American edition, published in July of 1933 by Little Brown and Company. Bound in publishers black cloth lettered in red. Book near fine, with a prior owners name and notation to the forward pastedown. Notation largely obscured by front jacket flap. Dust jacket ver good with light wear to tips and spinal extremities and a nailhead sized spot of rubbing to the edge of the spine where it abuts the front panel. A bright, attractive copy.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P.G.. Heavy Weather. Boston: Little, Brown, 1933, 1933.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Small label inside the front cover, else fine in a very good dust jacket with an interior tape mend. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P. G.. Heavy Weather. Little, Brown and Co, Boston, 1933.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition, precedes the English printing. Humorous novel, the fourth full-length novel of the Blandings Castle series. With the Hon. Galahad's reminiscences removed from the market, publisher Lord Tilbury is anxious to get hold of the manuscript. Lord Emsworth fears that Parsloe-Parsloe is out to spoil his prize pig 'Empress of Blandings' chances at the forthcoming county show, and keeps detective Pilbeam on hand to keep watch. Meanwhile, Sue Brown is anxious to hide her old friendship with Monty Bodkin from her jealous fiancé Ronnie Fish, giving his mother Lady Julia a chance to talk him out of the unsuitable marriage. Almost Near Fine, cheap cloth with a few nicks at edges, lower spine tip tucked upward, in Very Good dustjacket, some very shallow chips at spine ends and flap corners, modest edge wear.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 314 pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's black cloth with red lettering to spine and front cover in pictorial jacket. (First's January 2003 pg 45) First American edition limited to 12,000 copies. Heavy Weather is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on July 28, 1933 by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, and in the United Kingdom on August 10, 1933 by Herbert Jenkins, London. It had been serialized in the Saturday Evening Post from 27 May to 15 July 1933. It is part of the Blandings Castle series of tales, the fourth full-length novel to be set there, and forms a direct sequel to Summer Lightning (1929), with many of the same characters remaining at the castle from the previous story. It also features the re-appearance by Lord Tilbury, who had previously appeared in Bill the Conqueror (1924) and Sam the Sudden (1925). Condition: Previous owner's name on front end paper verso. Jacket with the number .25 under the unclipped price of $2.00, edges professionally restored by Octavaye Studios. else a very good copy in about a near fine but scarce jacket.
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P.G.. Heavy Weather. Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1933.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition ("July, 1933"). 8vo. Original lack cloth stamped in red. Dust jacket (unclipped; small chip at head of spine). A fine, tight, apparently unread copy. 314 pages. 4th novel in Blanding series.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.