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P. G. Wodehouse. Laughing gas. Doubleday, Doran & company, inc., 1936.

Price: US$3.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: Moderate edgewear on the boards. Binding is moderately loose. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item.

Seller: Library House Internet Sales, Grand Rapids, OH, U.S.A.

Wodehouse,P.G.. Laughing Gas. Doubleday Doran, 1936.

Price: US$12.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Book square ad tight. Spine delicate but NO page seperation. Small name at paste down. Else no other markings. Book spine SLIGHTLY darker. ; Darn good copy. ; 303 pages

Seller: Enterprise Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.

Wodehouse, P.G.(Pelham Grenville). Laughing Gas. Doubleday, Doran & Company, NY, 1936.

Price: US$12.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition, First Printing; orange c; glue shadows on front and back pastedowns; moderate edgewear, wear at spine/tips; 303 clean, unmarked pages. Size: 12 vo

Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.

Wodehouse, P.G.. Laughing Gas. Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., New York, 1936.

Price: US$12.50 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: S-3. Spine tanned and spoiled. Spine ends and corners of boards worn. Front and back boards soiled. Page edges and endpapers tanned. Previous owner's name written on left free endpaper. Four pages in text have a 1" sealed tear at top edge. Text is unmarked. 303 pages. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Seller: Bookmarc's, Houston, TX, U.S.A.

Wodehouse, P. G.. Laughing Gas. DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & CO. INC., GARDEN CITY, 1936.

Price: US$13.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: sunfaded spine, illustrated spine & front cover, bookplate on inside front cover, yellowing endpages & inside covers. tight binding. DATE PUBLISHED: 1936 EDITION: 303

Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.

P. G. Wodehouse. Laughing Gas. DOUBLEDAY, DORAN, NEW YORK, 1936.

Price: US$13.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: Bookplate on fep. general wear and rubbed cover. tight binding. No markings. Faded spine. Black gilt on cover and spine. DATE PUBLISHED: 1936 EDITION: FIRST 303

Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.

Wodehouse, P.G.. Laughing Gas. Doubleday, Doran, Garden City, 1936.

Price: US$13.99 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hardcover without dust jacket. First American Edition in orange cloth. First Edition is stated, as necessary. A Hollywood child star and an English aristocrat exchange souls while under ether at the dentist and the result is mayhem. Though his golden curls and sweet expression make him the idol of mothers throughout America, Joel Cooley is a tough nut who wants nothing more than to revenge himself on the agents, directors, and producers who make his life a misery, before escaping back to Ohio. When his soul is transplanted in the body of an English earl with a boxing Blue he has the chance to "poke them all in the snoot." Lord Havershot, meanwhile finds himself under the thumb of the fierce Miss Brinkmeyer and terrorized by the boy stars Joey has supplanted. The result is Anglo-American farce with the lightest of touches, and another hilarious Wodehouse romp!

Seller: Long Island Book Company, Alpharetta, GA, U.S.A.

Wodehouse, P. G.. Laughing Gas. Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1936.

Price: US$15.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Very Good ; No jacket. 1936 Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc. First Edition (in US), stated. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has orange cloth-covered boards with black spine lettering and cover decorations. Deckle fore and bottom edges. Top page edges are orange. 303 pages. Dust jacket is missing. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Spine ends lightly bumped. Bottom front corner is bumped. Covers have light surface and edge wear. Name in ink on front endpaper. Pages very lightly tanned at periphery but still supple. Pages clean and unmarked. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

Seller: SmarterRat Books, Chagrin Falls, OH, U.S.A.

Wodehouse, P. G.. Laughing Gas. DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & CO. INC., GARDEN CITY, 1936.

Price: US$15.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: slight darkened spine, illustrated spine & front cover, bookplate on inside front cover, yellowing endpapers & inside covers. general wear and rubbed cover. tight binding. DATE PUBLISHED: 1936 EDITION: 303

Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.

WODEHOUSE, P. G.. Laughing Gas.. Doubleday, Doran & Company,, Garden City:, 1936.

Price: US$15.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Stated first edition. Age toning along the spine, previous owner's name and date (1936) on front free endpaper, else very good in orange cloth. No dust jacket.

Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.

WODEHOUSE, P. G.. Laughing Gas. Doubleday Doran, New York, 1936.

Price: US$17.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First American edition, later printing. Private library code written in faint white letters on spine panel, else a good or better copy with light soiling and wear to orange cloth boards, lacking the dustjacket.

Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.

P.G. Wodehouse. Laughing Gas. Doubleday Doran, 1936.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Description: FIRST US EDITION. NY: Doubleday Doran, 1936. Orange cloth, no jacket. Very Good. Clean pages.

Seller: Singing Saw Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

Wodehouse, P. G.. LAUGHING GAS. Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., Garden City, 1936.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, cloth. A fair to good copy, water staining to upper edges. (8740)

Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.

Wodehouse, P. G.. Laughing Gas. Doubleday Doran, New York, 1936.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Description: VG+, orange cloth, spine sunned, light wear to points; Eps a little browned & scattered foxing, no dj.

Seller: T. A. Borden Books, Olney, MD, U.S.A.

Wodehouse, P. G.. Laughing Gas. Doubleday, Doran and Company, Incorporated, Garden City, NY, 1936.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Original publisher’s orange cloth binding. No dust wrapper. 5 ½” x 7 ¾.” 303 pages, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. No remainder marks. A comedic story about Hollywood and a young Englishman named Reggie Havershot.

Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.

WODEHOUSE, P.G.. LAUGHING GAS.. Doubleday, Doran, 1936, 1936.

Price: US$27.99 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: FIRST EDITION (American) in orange cloth boards, lacking the dust jacket. About fine, with minute wear to the spine ends; bright and square; bookplate on FFEP. See. 0.0

Seller: Monroe Stahr Books, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.

p. g. wodehouse. laughing gas. doubleday, doran, garden city new york, 1936.

Price: US$28.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Orange with black letters and design, slightly faded spine very light rub to corners. Interior is clean unmarked except for light penciled price. nice

Seller: broken wing books, blaine, MN, U.S.A.

WODEHOUSE, P.G.. LAUGHING GAS.. Doubleday, Doran, 1936, 1936.

Price: US$29.99 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: FIRST EITION (US) in orange boards; lacking the dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on FFEP. See. Wodehouse spent time in Hollywood, but this is more Wodehouse than Hollywood.

Seller: Monroe Stahr Books, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.

Wodehouse, P.G.. Laughing Gas. Doubleday, Doran, 1936, 1936.

Price: US$33.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: HB-GOOD, no DJ; orange cloth cover soiled / previous owner's name on facing page / wear to corners and edges / front hinge broken;

Seller: First Choice Books, coeurd'Alene, ID, U.S.A.

Wodehouse, P.G.. Laughing Gas.. Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, Garden City, 1936.

Price: US$35.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First Printing. A solid Near Fine copy in dark orange cloth, lacking the dustwrapper. Very slightly cocked. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. 303pp. Q06287

Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.

Wodehouse, P.G.. Laughing Gas. Doubleday, Doran, NY, 1936.

Price: US$45.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: This is a Near Fine copy of the First American Edition. No dust jacket. Bright orange covers with illustration on cover and spione. The spine shows a bit of darkening but is still very bright. No internal writing. A very attractive copy.

Seller: Nilbog Books, Portland, ME, U.S.A.

P.G. Wodehouse. Laughing Gas. Doubleday and Doran, 1936.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Very nice bright copy in orange cloth. Small address label affixed to inside cover.

Seller: Culpepper Books, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.

Wodehouse, P.G.. Laughing Gas. Doubleday, Doran & Co, New York, NY, USA,, 1936.

Price: US$57.11 + shipping

Description: First US edition: octavo; hardcover, with decorated spine and upper board; 303pp. Slightly rolled; mild scattered foxing throughout; offset to endpapers; light wear to boards. Repaired with new endpapers. Dustwrapper quite faded with wear and some chipping to the spine panel extremities and flap turns; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film and white paper backing. Good. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.

Seller: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia

P.G. Wodehouse. Laughing Gas : An Hilarious Novel about Hollywood and a Noble Young Englishman Named Reggie Havershot - w/ Dust Jacket!. Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1936.

Price: US$65.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: This old book with dust jacket is clean, solid and in great shape! This is a hardcover book with 303 pages. The binding is strong with all pages firmly attached. The prior owner wrote their name on the top of the first end paper. The pages are otherwise clean with no soiling or tears. The copyright page shows 1936 as the published date. There is a price of $2.00 on the DJ flap. The DJ has a color illustration of a young lad in knickers holding a gun on three bearded men. The dust jacket shows some light edgewear (No Chips). I have placed the DJ in a fresh mylar jacket and this old book looks and feels great! We always ship in a sturdy cardboard box!

Seller: THIS OLD BOOK, Brookfield, IL, U.S.A.

Wodehouse, P.G.. Laughing Gas. Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc, New York, 1936.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Description: First American edition. 1 vols. 8vo. McIlvaine A56b

Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.

Wodehouse, P. G.. Laughing Gas. Doubleday, Doran and Company, Incorporated, Garden City, NY, 1936.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Original publisher's orange cloth binding with multicolored dust wrapper that shows an illustration of a young boy pointing a revolver at three men with their hands up while a frantic woman comes after him. Dust wrapper in mylar. 5 3/4" x 7 1/2." 303 pages, complete. Front page lists other books by P. G. Wodehouse. Back panel of dust wrapper has an advertisement for another book by Wodehouse. Pages and covers of book are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Dust wrapper is not price-clipped. Three small chips along top of dust wrapper, not affecting printing. No remainder marks. A Fine book in a Very Good to Near Fine dust wrapper. "A hilarious novel about Hollywood and a noble young Englishman named Reggie Havershot."

Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.

Wodehouse, P. G. Laughing Gas. Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1936.

Price: US$140.00 + shipping

Description: Near-fine with small bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise bright and clean. In a very good dust jacket ($2.00 price intact) with slight vertical crease to spine, a touch of wear at the spine ends and corners, and one piece of reinforcing tape on the reverse of the spine. A very attractive copy.

Seller: Magus Books of Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.

Pelham Grenville "P G" Wodehouse (1881-1975). Laughing Gas. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, Garden City, 1936.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 303 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") in publisher's orange cloth with black lettering to spine and pictorial to front cover. (APG: 63b) First American edition. Laughing Gas is a comic novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 25 September 1936 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on 19 November 1936 by Doubleday, Doran, New York. It is set in Hollywood in the early 1930s (the Depression is mentioned twice) and is, compared to, say, Budd Schulberg's What Makes Sammy Run? (1941), a light-hearted and exclusively humorous look at the film industry and in particular at child stars. Both Schulberg and Wodehouse describe the methods of all those would-be screenwriters and actors hunting for jobs, but Wodehouse's depiction is not at all serious or critical. Drone Reginald Swithin, the third Earl of Havershot ("Reggie") is 28, unmarried, and has a face like a gorilla. As the new head of his family, he is assigned a delicate task by his Aunt Clara and by Plimsoll, the family lawyer: He is to go to Hollywood and look for Aunt Clara's son, his cousin Eggy, who seems to have gotten himself into trouble, and bring him back home. In particular, Reggie is to prevent Eggy from getting engaged, let alone married, to some American gold-digger who would undoubtedly be far beneath the titled family. On the train from Chicago to Los Angeles, Reggie meets the famous film actress April June, and immediately falls head over heels in love with her. Once in Hollywood, he completely forgets to look for Eggy until, one night, he bumps into him at a party that April June is giving. What is more, Eggy is accompanied by Ann Bannister, Reggie's ex-fiancée, who is now engaged to Eggy. According to Eggy, Ann wants to reform him: make him drink less, and get a job as well. As the host of the party, the seemingly wonderful, tender, and caring April June ("Money and fame mean nothing to me, Lord Havershot") is difficult to get hold of. When he finally succeeds in doing so and is just about to propose to her, Reggie's tooth in the nick of time, as it turns out later starts hurting so badly that he has to postpone all his plans, hurry home, and make an appointment with a dentist. On the following afternoon, he is in I.J. Zizzbaum's waiting-room when he gets to know Joey Cooley, the 12 year-old movie star and darling of all American mothers. Joey is also going to have a tooth out, but Joey is going to be operated on by B.K. Burwash, Zizzbaum's rival they have a common waiting-room exactly at the same time as Reggie. Presently reporters storm the dentist's practice to take photos of Joey and interview him. Both Reggie and Joey get laughing gas as anesthetic. When Reggie regains consciousness he finds himself spoken to by B.K. Burwash, and also in the latter's chair. He concludes that there has been a switch in the fourth dimension: Joey's and his souls have changed bodies. Before he can clear up the situation, he is shoved into a car and brought "home". Joey's home in Hollywood originally he is from Chillicothe, Ohio, where his mother lives is the Brinkmeyer estate, a kind of golden cage for little Joey. He has been informally adopted by T.P. Brinkmeyer, Hollywood film mogul, and his middle-aged sister, Miss Brinkmeyer, who turns out to be particularly nasty. Gradually, Reggie, in Joey's body, gets to know the latter's daily practice, which he finds horrifying: He has been put on a strict diet consisting mainly of dried prunes but now he has the appetite of a 12-year-old! He must not leave the grounds except on official occasions, and he is not given any pocket money. He finds out very quickly that he can beat Miss Brinkmeyer's strict regime by climbing out of his bedroom window onto the roof of an outbuilding. He finds some confederates among the Brinkmeyers' staff (all of whom are aspiring actors who want to attract Brinkmeyer's attention by playing their servant roles in real life): The gardener readily supplies him wit

Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.

P.G. Wodehouse. Laughing Gas. Doubleday and Doran & Co., New York, 1936.

Price: US$195.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Garden City, 1936. Original Hard Cover Binding. Book Condition: Very Good. in a very good plust dust jacket under brodart mylar this is the American . 1st Edition. 303 pages. 8vo in the original in publisher's organge cloth with black lettering to spine and pictorial to front cover. (APG: 63b) First American edition. Laughing Gas is a comic novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 25 September 1936 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on 19 November 1936 by Doubleday, Doran, New York. It is set in Hollywood in the early 1930s (the Depression is mentioned twice) and is, compared to, say, Budd Schulberg's What Makes Sammy Run? (1941), a light-hearted and exclusively humorous look at the film industry and in particular at child stars. Both Schulberg and Wodehouse describe the methods of all those would-be screenwriters and actors hunting for jobs, but Wodehouse's depiction is not at all serious or critical. Drone Reginald Swithin, the third Earl of Havershot ("Reggie") is 28, unmarried, and has a face like a gorilla. As the new head of his family, he is assigned a delicate task by his Aunt Clara and by Plimsoll, the family lawyer: He is to go to Hollywood and look for Aunt Clara's son, his cousin Eggy, who seems to have gotten himself into trouble, and bring him back home. In particular, Reggie is to prevent Eggy from getting engaged, let alone married, to some American gold-digger who would undoubtedly be far beneath the titled family. Wodehouse enjoyed a long life, 1881 to 1975 and his full name was quite a mouth full, so he prefered his signature moniker P.G. he worked as a famous screen author in Hollywood during the heydey of motion pictures and hence this comic parody of Hollywood is right on lovely copy

Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.

Wodehouse, P. G.. Laughing Gas.. Garden City, Doubleday, Doran, 1936, 1936.

Price: US$262.50 + shipping

Description: Garden City, Doubleday, Doran, 1936, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. A novel about "Hollywood and a noble young Englishman named Reggie Havershot". Very good.

Seller: James M. Dourgarian, Bookman ABAA, Concord, CA, U.S.A.

WODEHOUSE, P.G.. LAUGHING GAS.. Doubleday, Doran, 1936, 1936.

Price: US$329.99 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: FIRST EDITION (US) in dust jacket. The orange boards of the book are fine. The dust jacket is mildly darkened at the spine, with minor wear at the spine ends and a couple of closed edge tears; (price intact on the front flyleaf). Wodehouse spent time in Hollywood, but this is more Wodehouse than Hollywood. See.

Seller: Monroe Stahr Books, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.

WODEHOUSE, P.G. [Pelham Grenville] (1881-1975). Laughing Gas. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1936, 1936.

Price: US$383.37 + shipping

Description: [Comic novel] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[vi]; 303; [3] blank. Publisher's orange cloth titled in black to spine, with black illustration to spine and upper board, top-edge dark orange. Pictorial dust jacket priced at $2.00. Toning to endpapers and edges, dustiness to top edge, neat ownership inscription to flyleaf. Cloth a little worn, spine ends pushed. Wrapper slightly soiled, rubbed to folds with some quite substantial chipping to edges. Very good. Set in Hollywood in the 1930s, Laughing Gas is a typically Wodehousian look at the film industry. The particular target is child film stars, with whom, by a bizarre mix-up triggered by inhaling nitrus oxide while in the dentist's chair, the protagonist is body-switched. Joey Cooley, Wodehouse's child-star, is forced to subsist on a diet of dried prunes, is effectively held under house arrest, and is kidnapped.

Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom

WODEHOUSE, P.G.. Laughing Gas. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1936, 1936.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Description: First American Edition. Label inside the front cover; very good in a dust jacket with some small chips and tears; the largest chip is fingernail-sized at the the foot of the spine. 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.. Laughing Gas. Doubleday Doran, New York, 1936.

Price: US$454.84 + shipping

Description: 8vo, pp. 303. Original orange boards, lettered in black to spine. Top edge red, leading edge uncut. Illustrated dustwrapper. A fine copy in a very good dustwrapper, some edgewear, one 2cm chip to top edge of rear panel. First US edition, published seven weeks after its UK counterpart. McIlvaine A56b

Seller: Neil Pearson Rare Books, London, United Kingdom

Wodehouse, P.G.. Laughing Gas. Doubleday Doran and Company, 1936.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Description: SIGNED first American edition. NY: Doubleday Doran, 1936. 303 p. Orange cloth with navy lettering. Inscribed by Wodehouse on the front endpaper with best wishes, signed and dated Christmas 1936. Good. No dust jacket. Ffep bottom quarter jaggedly trimmed-off. Spine sunned. Back cover has a crease. A rare signature from the English humorist.

Seller: Singing Saw Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

Pelham Grenville "P G" Wodehouse (1881-1975). Laughing Gas. Herbert Jenkins Ltd, London, 1936.

Price: US$1000.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 311+[blank]+[viii ad] pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5") bound in original publisher's orange cloth lettered in black at spine and upper board, publisher's device lower spine with black border in original pictorial jacket. (McIlvaine A56a) First edition in first state jacket with 7'6 to spine. Laughing Gas was serialized in This Week magazine (US) in six issues between 24 March and 28 April 1935, illustrated by Wallace Morgan.Laughing Gas is a comic novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 25 September 1936 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on 19 November 1936 by Doubleday, Doran, New York. Written in first person narrative, the story is set in Hollywood in the early 1930s. a light-hearted and exclusively humorous look at the film industry and in particular at child stars. Both Schulberg and Wodehouse describe the methods of all those would-be screenwriters and actors hunting for jobs, but Wodehouse's depiction is not at all serious or critical. Joey Cooley is a golden-curled child film star, the idol of American motherhood. Reginald, Third Earl of Havershot, is a boxing blue on a mission to save his wayward cousin from the fleshpots of Hollywood. Both are under anesthetic at the dentists when something strange happens - and their identities are swapped in the ether. Condition: spine lightly toned, spine slightly cocked; occasional foxing to gutters around the sewing, one short closed tear to bottom edge of page 33/34. Jacket moderately toned, wear and chipping to extremities, small loss to top of spine panel, top of front panel affecting the "E" in "Wodehouse" and bottom edge of front panel, old cellotape repair to verso else a better than very good copy in original good to very good unrestored jacket.

Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.