Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
WODEHOUSE, P. G.. Summer Moonshine.. Doubleday, Doran and Company, Garden City, 1937.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No printing indicated. Brief gift inscription on front free endpaper, trace dust soiling, else very good or better in orange cloth. No dust jacket. A tight, well preserved copy.
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P.G.. Summer Moonshine. Doubleday, Doran and Company, Garden City, New York, 1937.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, preceding the U.K. edition. Endpapers lightly age-toned, cloth soiled and mottled, about very good lacking the dust jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P. G.. Summer Moonshine.. Doubleday, Doran and Company, Garden City, 1937.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: 322 pp. 8vo, original tangerine cloth (lacking the jacket). First American edition. Front free endpaper sliced out (partially detaching the following blank leaf as well); light dust-soiling to the cloth.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P.G.. Summer Moonshine. Doubleday Doran, Garden City, 1937.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, preceding the U.K. edition. Tidy owner's name, small stain on front board, a bit of light soiling, very good without dustwrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P. G.. Summer Moonshine. Doubleday, Doran and Co, New York, 1937.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Description: Second Edition. Roese dustjacket art. Humorous novel of an English baronet. Near Fine but for area of discoloration at rear panel, in Good dustjacket, couple inch closed tear at top front panel, accompanied by small abrasion and scotch tape mend at verso.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Dust Jacket. Good. Wear and toning, particularly on verso. Wrinkling and tears at head and tail of spine. Small perforations on verso, running the length of spine. Price unclipped. In protective Mylar wraps. (Dust Jacket only. Book not included).
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original publisher's brown cloth binding and multicolored illustrated dust wrapper in mylar. Illustrated wrapper by Roese. 5 1/2" x 7 3/4." 322 pages, complete. A page in the front lists other books by P. G. Wodehouse. Back panel of dust wrapper advertises book by other authors. Dust wrapper and pages and covers of book are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Dust wrapper has edge wear, a chip at the top of the spine measuring about 1 1/2" x 1/2," and a couple smaller chips at the bottom of the spine. Spine of the book has rubbing at the top and bottom. Dust wrapper is not price-clipped. No remainder marks. A Very Good book in a Very Good dust wrapper. From the dust wrapper and book: "Perhaps the most successful of all Wodehouse backgrounds are the stately homes of England, and to them he returns in this long and hilarious novel. His characters are new, but they will be long remembered: Mr. Bulpitt, the greatest of American process servers; the Princess von und zu Dwornitzcheck, . Sir Buckstone Abbott, following the great if difficult tradtiion of Wodehousian baronets; the beautiful Jane . Of the plot itself little need be said. It involves principally the efforts of Mr. Bulpitt to practise his profession, under difficulties better read about than experienced; the vicissitudes of young love; the resounding triumphs of virtue."
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P. G.. Summer Moonshine. Doubleday, Doran and Co, New York, 1937.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition stated in dustjacket lacking price at top front flap, otherwise the same as first issue. Roese dustjacket art. Humorous novel of an English baronet. Very Good, spine soiled, in Very Good dustjacket.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P. G.. Summer Moonshine. Doubleday Doran & Company Inc. Garden City NY, 1937.
Price: US$170.82 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. Very Good + with a little fading. Dust Jacket Very Good + not price clipped with still bright colours. First Edition. End-papers show slight discoloration with owners inscription Binding tight.
Seller: Trinity Books, Boyle, ROSCO, Ireland
Wodehouse, P. G.. Summer Moonshine. Doubleday, Doran, Garden City, 1937.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No DJ Spine has on smudge on the title, cover edges slightly worn.
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 322 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's yellow cloth with green lettering and illustration to spine in original pictorial jacket. (Firsts volume 13, number 1, page 46) First American edition. Summer Moonshine is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on October 8, 1937 by Doubleday, Doran, New York, and in the United Kingdom on February 11, 1938 by Herbert Jenkins, London. It was previously serialized in The Saturday Evening Post (US) from 24 July to 11 September 1937 and in Pearson's Magazine (UK) between September 1937 and April 1938. Former big-game hunter Sir Buckstone Abbott, finding himself hard up, takes in paying guests at his pile, Walsingford Hall, while hoping to sell the place to a wealthy Princess. Pretty soon, all kinds of schemes, plots and romantic entanglements are going on. Condition: Light sunning to top edges. Jacket spine sunned, spine ends chipped, some wear with small chips and closed tears to edges else a very good copy in like jacket.
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$577.47 + shipping
Description: [Classic Humour] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[10]; 322; [4]. Publisher's orange cloth, top edge green, others untrimmed, cream endpapers, dust-jacket illustrated by Roese priced at £2.00. Contents clean, no inscriptions, wrapper a little nicked, some rubs, sunned to spine. A fine copy in very good jacket. The true first, published four months before the UK edition. Ex-Peter Harrington, with their book slip tucked in.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
WODEHOUSE, P.G.. Summer Moonshine. Doubleday Doran, New York, 1937.
Price: US$635.22 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 322. Original orange boards, lettered in orange-on-green to spine. Leading edge uncut. Illustrated dustwrapper. Spine a little dulled, offsetting to endpapers, text block age-toned, but a near fine copy in a very good dustwrapper, rear panel slightly darkened, minimal edgewear, slight damage to top corner of front panel. Dustwrapper illustration by Roese. First edition, preceding the UK edition by four months. Serialised in the Saturday Evening Post before publication in book form -- for which Wodehouse was paid $40,000. McIlvaine A59a
Seller: Neil Pearson Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
P. G. Wodehouse. Summer Moonshine. Doubleday, Doran and Company, New York, 1937.
Price: US$834.12 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: An exceptionally bright example of the true first edition (the US) of this farcical adventure from P. G. Wodehouse. The first edition, first impression of this charming and humorous novel from P. G. Wodehouse, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Former big-game hunter Sir Buckstone Abbott, finding himself hard up, takes in paying guests at his home, while hoping to sell the place to a wealthy Princess. Many schemes, plots and romantic entanglements ensue.The US true first edition, published four months prior to the first UK edition.A wonderful copy of this work. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, exceptionally bright. Shelf wear to back strip head and tail. A touch of sunning to dust wrapper back strip, with minor edge wear to back strip tail. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom