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Wodehouse, P.G.. LAUGHING GAS. HERBERT JENKINS LIMITED, 1936.

Price: US$9.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: The boards are a little shelf rubbed, faded marks and edge worn. There is sporadic foxing on the early pages, and around the block of the book, but very little in the body of the book, there are other minor age related marks. The condition of the book is given in terms of the book's age. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa

Wodehouse, P. G.. LAUGHING GAS. Herbert Jenkins, London, 1936.

Price: US$9.95 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 311 pp. Orange cloth decorated in black on the front panel and spine. Light wear on the corners with a bit of a ripple on the rear panel; some darkening on the spine; no interior markings; no dustjacket. Size: 12mo

Seller: W. Fraser Sandercombe, Burlington, ON, Canada

Wodehouse, P. G.. Laughing Gas. Herbert Jenkins, 1936.

Price: US$10.40 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 1936 first jenkins editions on light brown cloth

Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom

P.G. Wodehouse. Laughing Gas. Herbert Jenkins, London, 1936.

Price: US$11.70 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: (Ref. U2) Red cloth boards with black titles. Faded spine and edges. Signs of edgewear. Slightly rubbed at head and heel. Front endpaper is missing. Title page is tanned. Foxing to prelims, yellowing to top and foredge otherwise good and unmarked contents.

Seller: Voltaire and Rousseau Bookshop, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Wodehouse, P.G.. Laughing Gas. Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1936.

Price: US$12.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The boards are shelf rubbed and edge worn, but remain strong and sturdy. Internally, there is a previous owner's signature on the front end page, and there is tanning and foxing throughout, but the pages remain complete and legible. The binding is secure. JNor. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa

Wodehouse, P G. Laughing Gas. Herbert Jenkins, London, 1936.

Price: US$12.47 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Two ink ownership inscriptions and a book store stamp with twinked out price using vivid. Some light marks to the cover. Publishers ads at the rear.

Seller: The Secret Bookshop, Tararua, New Zealand

Wodehouse, P G. Laughing Gas. Herbert Jenkins Limited, London, 1936.

Price: US$15.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 311 pages (complete). One of Wodehouse's most popular titles. The boards are much worn and marked. They are secure and sure. Within, the pages are benign. They are clean, clear, comfortable and companionable. fn. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa

P g Wodehouse. Laughing Gas. Herbert Jenkins, 1936.

Price: US$15.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Inscription name and date on first blank page. Foxing to first and last pages and out side edges of all the pages but very clean internally. Grey cover in good condition ,browning on spine and a few white marks on the edges of the cover.

Seller: LOTSABOOKS, HAMILTON, New Zealand

Wodehouse, P.G.. LAUGHING GAS. Herbert Jenkins Limited, London, 1936.

Price: US$18.81 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Maroon boards a little worn at corners, faded spine. No inscriptions.

Seller: BOOK COLLECTORS GALLERY, SUMMER HILL, NSW, Australia

Wodehouse, P. G.. Laughing Gas. Herbert Jenkins, 1936.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: The boards are shelf rubbed and marked.Some annotating in pencil.Some foxing.Well bound.EK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa

Wodehouse, P. G.. Laughing Gas.. Herbert Jenkins, London, 1936.

Price: US$20.16 + shipping

Description: 311pp. Or orange cloth, lacking jacket. Some marks to right edge of front board, shelf wear to head & foot of spine, moderate foxing, prev owners name on ffep. Stated first printing. One of the classic Wodehouse tales of humor. Size: 8vo

Seller: Lawrence Jones Books, Ashmore, QLD, Australia

WODEHOUSE, P.G.. Laughing gas. Herbert Jenkins, London, 1936.

Price: US$22.55 + shipping

Description: McIlvaine A56a(1). 1st UK edition in the correct purple-red cloth with black lettering. Ex hospital library; stamps & label on front end paper. Spine a little faded & bumped. Used - Acceptable. Ex-lib hardback (no dustjacket)

Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Wodehouse, P.G.. Laughing Gas. Herbert Jenkins 1936, 1936.

Price: US$27.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First edition no d.j. half title page has been removed otherwise book is very good no inscription. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa

Wodehouse, P. G.. Laughing Gas.. Herbert Jenkins Limited. London, 1936.

Price: US$30.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: The book is bound in orange boards with bright black letters + border on the front cover & bright black letters + publishers design on the spine. There is light wear on the spine tips & cover corners. "Post Copy" stamp on the front endpaper + signature in red. The contents are clean & unmarked, the binding is tight. States: "First printing 1936".

Seller: Richard Peterson-Bookseller, Kingston, ON, Canada

P G Wodehouse. Laughing Gas. Herbert Jenkins Limited, London, 1936.

Price: US$32.49 + shipping

Description: This copy requires a professional CLEAN and REBUILD, HOWEVER in its favour is that its a complete FIRST EDITION at A VERY Reasonable PRICE! Poor condition Contents VERY GOOD! FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND FURTHER DETAILS. FROM A DEALER WHO TELLS YOU WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEIR TELEPHONE AND ADDRESS CONTACT DETAILS ARE! Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾"

Seller: J J Basset Books, bassettbooks, bookfarm.co.uk, Peter Tavy, United Kingdom

Wodehouse, P.G. (Pelham Grenville) (1881-1975). Laughing gas. London : Herbert Jenkins, 1936.

Price: US$33.41 + shipping

Description: Bookplate on front paste-down. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Lacks the front free end-paper. Some wear to spine. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Series: A Herbert Jenkins book. Physical description: 311 pages, 8 unnumbered pages ; 19cm. Subjects: English fiction -- 20th century. 1 Kg.

Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland

P G Wodehouse. Laughing Gas. Herbert Jenkins, 1936.

Price: US$40.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A very good copy of the first edition with slight canting,great value

Seller: Dick Neal Fine Books, Booker Bay, NSW, Australia

Wodehouse, P. G.. Laughing Gas. Herbert Jenkins Limited, London, 1936.

Price: US$45.48 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 8vo. Pp 311, 8-page publisher's list. Original cloth. There is some wear to the edges, outer hinges and spine, with some bumping to the corners. Foxing to edges and preliminaries, with some internally finger-smudging and foxing but generally clean and sound. No inscriptions.

Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom

Wodehouse, P.G. (Pelham Grenville) (1881-1975). Laughing gas. London : Herbert Jenkins, 1936.

Price: US$46.00 + shipping

Description: Bookplate on front paste-down. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Lacks the front free end-paper. Some wear to spine. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Series: A Herbert Jenkins book. Physical description: 311 pages, 8 unnumbered pages ; 19cm. Subjects: English fiction -- 20th century. 1 Kg.

Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.

P.G. Wodehouse. Laughing Gas. Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1936.

Price: US$46.78 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 1st edition, 1936. Red cloth spine uniformly faded. Pages foxed at the edges, internally clean & tight. No inscriptions. 311 pages.

Seller: Michael Moons Bookshop, PBFA, Whitehaven, CUMBR, United Kingdom

WODEHOUSE P.G.. Laughing Gas.. , 1936.

Price: US$50.39 + shipping

Description: London: Herbert Jenkins 1936. 8vo. Orig. red cloth with black lettering on front cover and spine slightly discoloured. 312 8pp. Lightly foxed. 1st ed.

Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia

WODEHOUSE, P.G.. Laughing Gas. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1936.

Price: US$51.98 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition, first issue. Octavo, pp 311 + 8 pages publisher's advertisements at rear. Plum cloth covered hard boards, black lettering and decoration to boards and spine. No markings internally, no foxing or spotting, spine not faded, spine ends a little rubbed and a small dent to the fore edge of rear board. Overall an excellent copy in Near Fine condition. [McIlvaine A56]

Seller: Picture This (ABA, ILAB, IVPDA), Sunningdale, United Kingdom

P G Wodehouse. Laughing Gas. Herbert Jenkins, 1936.

Price: US$60.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: A nice copy of the first with minor rubbing to the spine some light flecking to the edges of some of the last pages. Comes with beautiful facsimile wrapper

Seller: Dick Neal Fine Books, Booker Bay, NSW, Australia

P G Wodehouse. Laughing Gas. Herbert Jenkins, 1936.

Price: US$60.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: A beautiful near fine copy of the first in orange cloth with facsimile wrapper

Seller: Dick Neal Fine Books, Booker Bay, NSW, Australia

P G Wodehouse. Laughing Gas. Herbert Jenkins, London, 1936.

Price: US$66.80 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Herbert Jenkins, 1936. Hardcover. Book Condition: 1st Edition. London 1936 first edition first printing. No Jacket. Spine sun faded. Erased inscription on fep. Minor foxing.

Seller: The Secret Bookshop, Tararua, New Zealand

WODEHOUSE, P. G.. Laughing Gas.. London, Herbert Jenkins Limited, (1936)., 1936.

Price: US$75.25 + shipping

Description: First Edition; 8vo; pp. 311 plus 8 pages of advertisements; original orange cloth, title lettered in black on spine and front, minor marks to cloth, flecking to page edges, a good copy.

Seller: Time Booksellers, Somerville, VIC, Australia

WODEHOUSE, P. G.. Laughing Gas. Herbert Jenkins Ltd, London, 1936.

Price: US$82.50 + shipping

Description: First printing. Octavo (19cm). Red cloth, titled in black on front and spine; plain endpapers; 311,[9]pp; 8pp of publisher's ads at rear. Bookplate of Douglas R. Vining. A straight copy, rubbed at edges, spine faded, edges of textblock lightly foxed: around Very Good. MCILVAINE A56a.

Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, 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.

WODEHOUSE, P. G.. Blandings Castle and Elsewhere. Herbert Jenkins Limited, London, 1936.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Description: Second Printing. Abbey dustjacket art. Nice vintage edition of this classic Mulliner title, last ad at front flap of jacket lists Laughing Gas for 7/6 net (published in 1936). Near Fine but for foxing to title page and other preliminaries in nearly Very Good dustjacket, some shallow edge chipping and closed tears, dime sized chip at top front panel.

Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.

WODEHOUSE, P.G.. Laughing Gas.. Herbert Jenkins, London., 1936.

Price: US$162.44 + shipping

Description: First edition. Octavo. 311 pages. Eight-page publishers' catalogue at rear.Spine slightly faded. Very good indeed. No dustwrapper.

Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom

WODEHOUSE, P.G.. Laughing Gas. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1936, 1936.

Price: US$165.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. Very good. 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.. Mr. Mulliner Speaking. Herbert Jenkins Limited, London, 1936.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Description: Fifth Printing. Batchelor dustjacket art. Nice vintage edition of this classic Mulliner title, last ad at front flap of jacket lists Laughing Gas for 7/6 net (published in 1936). Near Fine but for foxing to page edges in Very Good dustjacket, foxing to verso, black sticker over spine price.

Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, 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. London Herbert Jenkins 1936, 1936.

Price: US$389.86 + shipping

Description: A first edition, first printing published by Herbert Jenkins in 1936. A very good+ book with a previous owner's inscription to the front endpaper. Some wear to the corners. In a good unclipped slightly later dust wrapper with two external tape repairs. Some wear and rubbing to the edges and corners.

Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom

WODEHOUSE, P. G.. Laughing Gas. Herbert Jenkins Ltd, London, 1936.

Price: US$779.73 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 1st Edition / 1st Impression. DESCRIPTION: Illustrated DJ over publishers original purple-red cloth. Stamped in black. First edition in first state jacket with 7'6 to spine. Owners name to ffep dated 1936 Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Light roll to spine. Light wear to sharp corners and edges. Minor wear and light creasing to spine ends. Sunned upper and lower spine end and front upper edge. Clean cloth. Tightly bound with lightly soiled intact endpapers. Prev owners name to ffep dated Xmas 1936. DJ Condition: Poor: Very heavy wear to upper and lower edges. 7.5cm missing section to upper spine end and upper rear edge to a maximum depth of 3cm. Missing section to lower spine end. Heavy wear, small losses and chipping to all corners Pages 311, (1), (8) (ads). Size: 8vo 19cm by 13cm. PROVENANCE: N.J.M. Anderson. Nigel James Moffatt Anderson (1920-2008). Born 1920 in Melbourne, educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Oxford. In 1939, he joined the 4th (Territorial Army) Battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Took part in the Norwegian Campaign of April to June 1940, and won one of the earliest Military Crosses of the war. He was seriously wounded in 1941. After the war became a schoolmaster at Radley College. In 1957 he inherited the Hamptworth estate from a cousin (Hugh Charles Cumberbatch and his wife Lucy Alice Moffatt). Elected to Wiltshire County Council in 1953. In 1974 he was Gazetted a Deputy Lieutenant for Wiltshire and in 1991 appointed the 999th High Sheriff of Wiltshire. From 1981 to 1985 he chaired the committee of the Wiltshire Victoria County History, was also chairman of the Wiltshire Scouts Association and president of the Wiltshire Youth Orchestra. Nigel Anderson met his wife Daphne [nee Siggins] while serving with the British Army in Northern Ireland and they had one son, Donald Anderson, who succeeded to the estate. Hamptworth Estate (1579 - 2018). Between 1579 -1869 the estate passed between from Gifford, Stockman, Chaplin, Duncombe, Shafto families. Thereafter, it passed to; 1870 - George Morrison, 1884 - Barbara Morrison (wife of George), 1907 - H.C. Moffatt (nephew of George), 1945 - H.C. Cumberbatch (nephew of H.C. Moffatt), 1957 - N.J.M. Anderson (Grandson of H.C. Moffatt), 2012 - Donald Anderson. John Hubback Anderson (1883-1950). Doctor, son of Dr J. F. Anderson from Malva Woodend , Victoria Australia. Enlisted on 7th October 1914 (at the age of 31) in the Australian Imperial Force as a Captain in the Australian Army Medical Corp with the 3rd Light Horse Field Ambulance. Embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A51 Chilka on 2 Feb 1915. He returned to Australia, 15 Nov 1919 on conclusion of the war. His honours include, Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG), 1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal. Married Ruby Clara Moffat on 14th April 1919 and had a son Nigel James Moffat Anderson. Ruby Clara Moffatt. Daughter of Harold Charles Moffat and grand daughter of George Moffat and Lucy Morrison of the Moffat and Morrison business dynasties.

Seller: Jacket and Cloth, Chippenham, United Kingdom

P G Wodehouse. Laughing Gas. Herbert Jenkins Limited, London, 1936.

Price: US$844.70 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: A good to very good copy of the 1st UK edition, in good wrapper priced at 7/6 on the spine. The plum cloth binding has black titles to front board and spine and is in clean sound condition. It has light fading to edges and some pulling to spine ends. Light wear to corners. Contents complete with 8 pp of adverts at the rear. It is very clean internally. Contents slight shaken with a couple of spots to foredge and some spotting at the top page edge occasionally visible internally. A few spots at the title page. A small mark in the top margin affecting pp 44-46 and some browning in the gutter at p289. Some top page corners have been turned over at some point and now have a slight crease. The wrap is clean with a lot of edge wear including some loss around the spine folds, principally affecting the front panel - and a little loss at the flap folds. There is some archive tape repair to stabilise the edges. Internally the wrap has browning down the spine and in the folds and some spotting at the flaps. It is in a removable protective covering.

Seller: ecbooks, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom

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.

Wodehouse (P.G.). Laughing Gas. Herbert Jenkins, London, 1936.

Price: US$1169.59 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6. Book very good; jacket with some skillful restoration to corners and spine ends, presenting as a near fine example. Wodehouse leverages his transatlantic success and lifestyle with this tale of a bratty Hollywood child star and an English aristocrat exchange souls at the dentist. Uncommon in such attractive condition.

Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom

P g wodehouse. Laughing Gas. Herbert jenkins, 1936.

Price: US$1500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: London plum first issue F/NF .The book is square ,no inscriptions foxing or staining to boards .The wrapper is the second issue 2/6 macilvaine item 4 april 1938.A nice copy Language: eng

Seller: Dick Neal Fine Books, Booker Bay, NSW, Australia

P.G. Wodehouse. Laughing Gas. Herbert Jenkins, UK, 1936.

Price: US$1624.43 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Laughing Gas by P.G. Wodehouse First Edition Published by Herbert Jenkins 1936. Small name inscription to fep. Unblemished throughout. Covers are remarkably fine and unmarked. In original, bright VG+ dust jacket which has no fading or toning spine.

Seller: Brought to Book Ltd, London, United Kingdom

P.G. Wodehouse. Laughing Gas. Herbert Jenkins, London, 1936.

Price: US$1670.58 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Original red cloth with black lettering and publishers vignette. Binding is tight and square with light scuffing to upper spine end. Inside clean, only lightest spotting to first pages. No marks or inscriptions. In bright, original, first state dust jacket with expertly repaired large tear to front cover and neatly restored loss to top edge and spine extremities. Correctly priced at 7/6. 311 pp. and 8 pp. of advertisements at the end. 19 x 13,5 cm. Dust jacket now protected in removable sleeve. A very collectible copy.

Seller: Concept Books, Veldhoven, Netherlands

WODEHOUSE, P. G.. Laughing Gas. Herbert Jenkins, London, 1936.

Price: US$4000.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Original plum colored cloth, lettered in black on the front board and the spine. The book is very clean, bright and solid. There are no inscriptions whatsoever. The complete dust jacket with cover art by Abbey remains very lovely. 7'6 price on the spine. There is one small chip to the bottom of the spine at the front hinge and a short closed tear at the top of the rear hinge. A lovely copy in all respects. McIlvaine A56A. Fine / Near Fine.

Seller: First Place Books - ABAA, ILAB, Walkersville, MD, U.S.A.

P g Wodehouse. Laughing Gas. Herbert Jenkins, 1936.

Price: US$5000.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: London 1936 first edition first issue ,plum cloth black lettering F/F. The book is fine ,no foxing ,inscriptions or staining .The wrapper has no defect but shows a light crease which under the light runs from top to bottom of front panel on the left side of the hand . Language: eng

Seller: Dick Neal Fine Books, Booker Bay, NSW, Australia