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Condition: Very Good
Description: 219 pages. Octavo (8" x 5 1/2"). bound in original publisher's gray cloth with white lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. .(McIlvaine A73) First American edition. Pigs Have Wings is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, which first appeared as a serial in Collier's Weekly between 16 August and 20 September 1952. It was first published as a book in the United States on 16 October 1952 by Doubleday & Company, New York, and in the United Kingdom on 31 October 1952 by Herbert Jenkins, London. It is the seventh novel set at Blandings Castle. The absent minded Lord Emsworth finds himself once again embroiled in fierce rivalry in the pig-rearing arena with his neighbour, the obese baronet Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe. With Emsworth's champion Empress of Blandings in line for a third straight victory in the local show and Parsloe bringing in a ringer, suspicions run high. Meanwhile, Blandings has its full complement of romantic entanglements. Fortunately, the ever-resourceful Gally is on hand to help out. Condition: Previous owner's name on front paste down, light rubbing to extremities. Dust jacket chipped at spine ends and corners, edges lightly chipped with closed tears and lightly rubbed. A very good copy in an about very good dust jacket.
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.