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P.G. Wodehouse. THE CRIME WAVE AT BLANDINGS. Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1937.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.; Garden City, 1937. Hardcover. First US Edition. A Good, green cloth binding with navy blue illustration on front board and navy blue lettering and illustration on spine, binding intact, sunned spine, handling/scuffing and some scattered foxing to boards, deckle fore-edge, some age toning to pages, spine lean, some crimping to spine edges, bit of discoloration to pastedowns and endpapers, some scattered foxing to bit dusty top text block edge, spine buckram starting to separate from backing material, without Dust wrapper. A good, overall clean and unmarked copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9], 330pp. We pack securely and ship daily w/delivery confirmation on every book. Please Note: Depending on site, actual book for sale may differ physically from picture listed. Additional scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.Please note: Oversized books/sets MAY require additional postage then what is quoted for 2.2lb book.
Seller: Lavendier Books, Foster, RI, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P. G.. THE CRIME WAVE AT BLANDINGS. Doubleday, Doran, 1937.
Price: US$46.40 + shipping
Description: THE CRIME WAVE AT BLANDINGS, Doubleday, Doran, 1937, first American edition, a tight vg copy in the publishers original pictorial cloth.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P. G.. The Crime Wave at Blandings. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., New York, 1937.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American Edition, First Printing. Unmarked, square and tight. No dust jacket. The fore-edge corners are not rounded; wear to the head and heel of the spine; and some minor soiling to the top edge. Near fine for its age.
Seller: Walther's Books, Hopkins, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A collection of seven hilarious Wodehouse stories. Condition notes - 330 numbered pp; HB w/DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight, green topstain, f.e. deckled, cream eps; eps toned, mildly cocked. Cover: green, dk green artwork front, green artwork + green titles spine; v lt shelfwear, extrems barely worn, a few sm and v sm white spots front. DJ: clipped in Brodart, full color artwork + white/black titles front/spine; moderate edge/shelfwear w/t.e. tattered and creased, tail tattered and chipped internal tape repairs.
Seller: Independent Books, Long Beach, WA, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P. G.. The Crime Wave at Blandings. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Garden City, 1937.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Description: First printing. Octavo (20cm). Green cloth, stamped in darker green on front and spine; plain endpapers; [vi], 330pp. A straight, upright copy, minor dirt to cloth, rubbed at extremities, head and tail pushed, discoloration to pastedowns near gutters: Good. Seven short stories in the Blandings Castle saga. MCILVAINE A58a.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good first edition book in good minus dust jacket. Light green cloth covered boards with darker green artwork on the front panel, dark green lettering and artwork on spine. Small bookseller's label on back paste down. Boards have light soil overall, more so at tail and head of spine where DJ is missing. Edges at head and tail of spine are also creased, corners are softened and rubbed but not quite fraying. External page edges are age-darkened and with foxing. Shadow transfers and light foxing to end-papers. Faint pencil erasures on title page. Spine is cracked at pp. 170-171 and to a lesser degree at 250-251. Text pages are age-toned, else internally clean. Text block is sound in spite of spine cracks. Very colorful dust jacket is soiled overall, more obvious against the white background of back panel. Significant losses at tail and head of jacket spine - see photos. In addition to the losses, spine has a 1 1/2" closed horizontal tear approx. 1/3 of the way down; also a 1 5/8" vertical tear with an adjacent 1/2" horizontal tear, dividing the image of the butler. Folds and extremities are sunned. All folds are heavily creased and rubbed. The front panel is separated from the front spine fold; more than half of the front fore-edge fold is rubbed through and with several adjacent chips and closed horizontal tears. The back fore-edge fold is holding but has 1/2" by 1/4" loss from rubs at upper fore-edge corner, a bit smaller loss at lower corner. Front and back panels have horizontal creasing along the upper- and lower-most edges, as well as numerous small chips and rubs. The lower edge of the front panel has a 3/8" closed vertical tear with adjacent diagonal creases to the lower edge. All inside flap corners are clipped, the largest being 2 1/4" by 7/8" where the price would have been. 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.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Mild tanning to the pastedown endpapers (as usual), evidence of ink erasures on the front endpaper, small ownership label, minor wear to the spine ends, some soiling to the covers else very good in green pictorial cloth with dark green panels and lettering; in a new high quality full-color FACSIMILE of the original dust jacket. An excellent collection of stories: "The Crime Wave At Blandings"; "The Medicine Girl (DOCTOR SALLY in the U.K.)"; "Buried Treasure"; The Masked Troubadour"; "Romance At Droitgage Spa"; "All's Well With Bingo"; "Tried In The Furnace."
Seller: BOOKFELLOWS Fine Books, ABAA, Sun City, AZ, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P.G.. The Crime Wave at Blandings. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1937, 1937.
Price: US$75.00 + 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.
P G Wodehouse. The Crime Wave at Blandings. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Garden City, New York, 1937.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1937 Doubleday, Doran & Company, First Edition, green cloth hardcover without dust jacket, corners lightly rubbed, endpapers tanned, owner's name and year on front endpaper, interior pages are clean, 330 pages
Seller: Stone Soup Books, Camden, ME, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P.G.. The Crime Wave at Blandings. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1937.
Price: US$81.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. No jacket. Remains on rear paste-down endpaper. 1937 Hard Cover. 330 pp. "The Crime Wave at Blandings" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse that first appeared in the United States in two parts, in the October 10 and October 17, 1936 editions of the Saturday Evening Post, and in the United Kingdom in the January 1937 issue of the Strand (as "Crime Wave at Blandings"). It was included in the collection Lord Emsworth and Others (1937), and provided the title to the U.S. equivalent of that collection. The story was a rewritten version of an older piece, entitled "Creatures of Impulse", which had appeared in the Strand in October 1914, and in the U.S. in McClure's that same month. "The Crime Wave at Blandings" is set at Blandings Castle, home of Lord Emsworth, and features several other recurring characters.
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 8vo. 330 pp. Light green cloth, with darker green titling and silhouette drawings on the front panel and on the spine. The book shows dusting and a slightly darker spine. A previous owners name at " 51" are written in ink on the f.f.e.p. The title page has a stamp in blue ink showing a name and address of another previous owner, and the same stamp was on the front paste-down but someone has does his or her best to cover it up. A nice copy, tight and clean.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original publisher’s green cloth binding with multicolored illustrated dust wrapper. 5 ½” x 7 ¾.” 330 pages, complete. A page in the front lists other books by P. G. Wodehouse. The back panel of the dust wrapper advertises another book by Wodehouse and the back flap of the dust wrapper advertises other books. Former ownership initials and label on front pastedown. Dust wrapper and pages and covers of book are very clean and intact overall. Binding is tight. Dust wrapper has slight chipping at the extremities and at the top of the spine. Tape at the top of the dust wrapper’s spine. Slight wear at the top of the book’s spine. Dust wrapper is not price-clipped. No remainder marks. A Very Good book in a Very Good dust wrapper. A collection of short stories. Description from the front flap of the dust wrapper: “The title story finds Lord Emsworth, that noble if somewhat impoverished peer, lord of Blandings, succumbing to the urge to pot a perfectly respectable young man in the seat of the pants with an air rifle. The incomparable Mulliner appears in ‘Buried Treasure’ and ‘Romance at Droitgate Spa.’ We return to the hilarious mise en scene of the Drones Club in ‘The Masked Troubadour.’ Last is that little impish gem of romance, ‘The Medicine Girl.’” The stories are listed in the following order: “The Crime Wave at Blandings,” “The Medicine Girl,” “Buried Treasure,” “The Masked Troubadour,” “Romance at Droitgate Spa,” “All’s Well with Bingo,” and “Tried in the Furnace.”
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P.G.. THE CRIME WAVE AT BLANDINGS.. DOUBLEDAY-DORAN., NY, 1937.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Near fine copy in green cloth, with green top-stain, lacks dust jacket. (Trace of light off-setting to paste-downs. Previous owner's name inked on front end-paper. Interesting printed sticker afixed to rear paste-down- "ABC News Company, 391 Szechuen Road, Shanghai." )
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P. G.. The Crime Wave at Blandings. Doubleday Doran, Garden City, 1937.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Stated first printing. Book is super despite lightly nudged bottom tips. Jacket with tiny chipping at extremities, hardly any loss, two closed one inch tears; and it's difficult to tell if the spine is mildly toned. Close to a superior copy.
Seller: Craig Hokenson Bookseller, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P.G.. The Crime Wave at Blandings. Doubleday, Doran and Co, New York, 1937.
Price: US$231.75 + shipping
Description: Octavo. 330pp., bound in light green pictorial cloth, reproducing the same scene as on the dust jacket in dark green, pictorial spine and lettering dark green, a very good copy in unclipped pictorial dust jacket with a few tape mends to underside of jacket and rear panel.
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1937 Doubleday Doran stated first edition in very good price intact ($2.00)jacket. Tight binding text unmarked light tone. Jacket shows light edgewear and older repaired tear and small stain rear panel. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal
Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.
P G Wodehouse. The Crime Wave at Blandings. Doubleday Doran/ The Book League, 1937.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A fine copy in fine wrapper with sage green cloth .Identical to the Doubleday Doran edition except The Book League of America stated on title page and the back panel of the wrapper has blurb about The Book League. They were a publisher and mail order book sales club .In this case they ordered 1000 copies but eventually were taken over by Doubleday Doran in the 50's victims of The Great Depression
Seller: Dick Neal Fine Books, Booker Bay, NSW, Australia
Wodehouse, P. G.. The Crime Wave at Blandings.. Garden City, Doubleday, Doran, 1937, 1937.
Price: US$315.00 + shipping
Description: Garden City, Doubleday, Doran, 1937, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Seven humorous stories by a master of the craft. Aged, very good in a very good minus jacket.
Seller: James M. Dourgarian, Bookman ABAA, Concord, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1] 2-330, original green cloth, front and spine stamped in dark green, fore edge uncut, bottom edge rough cut. Collects the title story and six others. McIlvane A58a. Erasure to upper left corner of front free end paper, blind stamp to lower right corner of front free end paper, a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with rubbing to front flap fold, a 15 mm closed tear to upper front panel, shelf wear to spine ends with tiny closed tears a upper spine folds, color fade to spine panel. (22587)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P.G.. The Crime Wave at Blandings.. NY. Doubleday, Doran & Co. 1937., 1937.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. With stated "First Edition" on the copyright page. Handsomely bound in lime green cloth with "shotgun vignette" in black on front boards and black lettering on the spine. Clean and tight.In a complete but heavily edge-rubbed dustjacket with the original price of $2.00 at the top of the inside front flap. A few small scuffs on the front panel. With a few small pieces of scotch tape applied to the verso of the jacket at the top and bottom of the spine ends and at the inside of the corners. Overall, an attractive copy in the original dustjacket. First Edition.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 330 pages with deckle fore edge pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's green cloth with dark green lettering to spine and pictorial to cover and spine in original pictorial jacket. (Jasen: 57a; McIlvaine A58a) First American edition. The Crime Wave at BlandingsA collection of seven short works, including one story set at Blandings Castle, a tale narrated by Mr Mulliner, and one story featuring Drones Club member Freddie Widgeon, to which were added two more Drones stories, a Bingo Little story, and a novella, "The Medicine Girl", which had been published separately in Britain as Doctor Sally (1932). The master of Blandings is, nominally at least, Lord Emsworth. Clarence, the ninth Earl, is an amiably absent-minded old chap, who is charming because of his slow, relaxed lifestyle and the simple obsessions that make him oblivious to the absurd melodrama of his family, namely his home, gardens, pumpkins, and his champion pig, Empress of Blandings. He is never happier than when pottering about the grounds on a fine sunny day. Lord Emsworth's ten sisters (all of whom look like the "daughter of a hundred earls", except for Hermione, who looks like a cook), his brother Galahad ("Gally"), his daughter Mildred, his sons Freddie and George, and his numerous nieces, nephews, and in-laws inhabit the castle from time to time. For the Threepwood family, and their friends, the castle is forever available for indefinite residence, and is occasionally used as a temporary prison known as "Devil's Island" or "The Bastille" for love-struck young men and ladies to calm down. Blandings Castle, lying in the picturesque Vale of Blandings, Shropshire, England, is two miles from the town of Market Blandings, home to at least nine pubs, most notably the Emsworth Arms. The castle is a noble pile, of Early Tudor building ("its history is recorded in England's history books and Viollet-le-Duc has written of its architecture", according to Something Fresh). One of England's largest stately homes, it dominates the surrounding country, standing on a knoll of rising ground at the southern end of the celebrated Vale of Blandings; the Severn gleams in the distance. From its noble battlements, the Wrekin can be seen. The house has numerous guest rooms, many of which haven't been used since Queen Elizabeth roamed the country. Of those still in use, the Garden Room is the finest, usually given to the most prestigious guest; it has a balcony outside its French windows, which can be easily accessed via a handy drainpipe. The main library has a smaller library leading off it, and windows overlooking some flowerbeds; it is here that Lord Emsworth is often to be found on wet days, his nose deep in an improving tome of country lore, his favorite being Whiffle on The Care of the Pig. Condition: Jacket corners and spine ends lightly chipped, some closed edge tears and small chips else a very good to fine copy in like jacket.
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P.G.. The Crime Wave at Blandings. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1937, 1937.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. About fine in a dust jacket with a slightly faded spine and minor wear and tear. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Berkeley, Anthony. Trial and Error. New York Doubleday, Doran & Company Inc. 1937, 1937.
Price: US$560.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Advance Copy. 351pp. Octavo. Original paper wrappers; small stain to front panel. A tight copy; pages clean and bright. very good Scarce publisher's advance copy. Journalist and crime writer Anthony Berkeley [Cox] wrote under several fictional pseudonyms and was a close friend of British humourist P.G. Wodehouse.
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada