Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
P. G. Wodehouse. The Ice in the Bedroom. Simon and Schuster, 1961.
Price: US$15.79 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1961. First Edition. 246 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth. Missing front free endpaper. Light foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Hinges are lightly cracked but boards remain firmly attached. Binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has minor tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Wodehouse, P. G.. The Ice in the Bedroom. Simon and Schuster, NY, 1961.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover with black paper over covers, black cloth over spine; yellow, red, and white lettering across spine and front cover. Yellow and white pictorial DJ. Black and purple text, black and yellow illustration across covers and spine. White sections of DJ slightly discolored, likely due to shelf wear. Closed tear, about an inch long extends down from crown of spine. All art and text fully intact, no price clipping. DJ encased in protective brodart sleeve to prevent further damage. Title page dated 1961. Copyright page dated only 1961, stated first printing. 245 pages. Light foxing to fore edges, does not extend onto pages themselves. Pages clean and bright. Binding slightly loose along spine but neat and secure along hinges. Please email us with questions or to request photos.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
P.G. Wodehouse. The Ice In The Bedroom. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1961.
Price: US$26.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Black cloth over boards with illustration of author signature in gilt. Author, title, and printer in paint on the spine. All boards and pages attached. Pages are all clean and light tanning.No dust jacket.
Seller: John and Tabitha's Kerriosity Bookshop, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P.G.. The Ice in the Bedroom. Simon & Shuster, NY, 1961.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Unmarked book, states first printing. Jacket with some wear to spine ends, not price clipped. A nice example of the first printing.
Seller: Graver & Pen Rare Books, Midland, MI, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P. G.. Ice in the Bedroom.. Simon and Schuster,, NY:, 1961.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second printing. Previous owner's name stamped on title page, else very good in a very good dust jacket.
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P.G.. The Ice in the Bedroom. Simon & Schuster, 1961.
Price: US$33.70 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Second printing, same format as first. Not price-clipped. In a Brodart jacket cover.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P.G.. The Ice in the Bedroom. Simon & Schuster, 1961.
Price: US$38.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Light edgewear and slight browning to jacket.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P. G.. The Ice in the Bedroom. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1961.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: A nice copy, but for small chips to dust jacket and one big chip on inside of dust jacket. Slight foxing to fore edge. Text clean, binding strong. [Our rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.]
Seller: Montreal Books, Westmount, QC, Canada
Wodehouse, P. G.. The Ice in the Bedroom. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1961.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: A nice copy, but for small chips to dust jacket and one big chip on inside of dust jacket. Slight foxing to fore edge. Text clean, binding strong. [Our rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.]
Seller: RPBooks, Champlain, NY, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P.G.. ICE IN THE BEDROOM, THE. Simon & Schuster, 1961.
Price: US$47.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 246pp
Seller: Austin Book Shop LLC, Richmond Hill, NY, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P. G.. The Ice in the Bedroom. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1961.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Book and dust jacket are near fine. First edition, so stated.
Seller: Darwin Labordo, Books, Sierra Madre, CA, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P. G. [Pelham Grenville]. ICE IN THE BEDROOM. Simon and Schuster, New York, NY, 1961.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 248 pp. Original purple paper covered boards w/ black cloth spine. Binding very bright and clean. Light foxing to edges of text block and endpapers. DJ has wear and short tears to edges. Moderately soiled and foxed. Contents nice.
Seller: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.
P. G. Wodehouse. The Ice in the Bedroom. Simon & Schuster, 1961.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: P.G. Wodehouse The Ice in the Bedroom. Simon and Schuster (1961). First US Edition. Hardcover. The true first edition. 8000 copies printed. A Fine copy. Dust jacket is Near Fine with aging on back cover and tiny chip at top of front. See image. Enclosed in archival quality mylar cover.
Seller: Savage Lotus Books, ATHENS, GA, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P.G.. The Ice in the Bedroom.. NY. Simon and Schuster. 1961., 1961.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Only 8,000 cc printed. NF/VG+ in black cloth spine stamped brightly in white, yellow, and red. The dustjacket rear panel is heavily foxed along the edges; the front panel has a smattering of foxing and light soiling along the front edge with 1 tiny closed tear. First Edition.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P. G.. The Ice in the Bedroom. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1961.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Description: First printing. Octavo (21cm). Black paper over boards, backed in black cloth, titled on spine in white, yellow, and red, facsimile signature on front in yellow, in original pictorial dust jacket with black and yellow design on front, unclipped (priced $3.75); yellow endpapers; [vi],246,[2]pp. A clean copy, lightly faded along extreme edges, head and tail gently pushed, crack to binding after half-title, else sound: Very Good. Dust jacket rubbed at edges with small chips to head and tail, light dirt at folds, minor discoloration to verso where black printing shows through: Very Good. Precedes the first English edition. MCILVAINE A84A.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P. G.. THE ICE IN THE BEDROOM. Simon & Schuster, 1961.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Description: THE ICE IN THE BEDROOM, Simon & Schuster, 1961, first edition, just about fine in near fine dust-wrapper with some slight wear to the base of the dust-wrapper spine and a few foxing specks to the rear dust-wrapper panel. A very nice copy.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P.G.. The Ice In The Bedroom. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961, 1961.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; preceding the English edition by several months. Inscribed by Wodehouse; very good to fine in dust jacket. 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 Ice in the Bedroom. Simon and Schuster, 1961.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Very nice copy with P.G.'s signature on F.E.P. It reads: Best wishes, P.G. Wodehouse. Former owner felt compelled to write berneath this inscription - Best wishes to you too! Hugh Littel, 1961. He also wrote his name on half title page.
Seller: Culpepper Books, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P. G.. The Ice in the Bedroom. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1961.
Price: US$1175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 246 pages; [SIGNED] 1961 Simon & Schuster HC/DJ 1st edition, stated. Precedes the Jenkins UK edition. Signed by Wodehouse on the front flyleaf. Snugly bound and neat in original pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $3.75 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Black quarter cloth backed spine lettered in white yellow and red and black paper covered boards. Publisher's yellow top stain bold and uniform. Jacket lightly shelf rubbed edges with a tiny daub of blue ink top front corner of the cover panel and a tiny closed tear top edge. Handsome copy. NF/VG+; Signed by Author
Seller: DogStar Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P G. The Ice in the Bedroom: Signed First US Printing. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1961.
Price: US$1302.51 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First US edition, first printing. Signed: "With best wishes, P G Wodehouse" to front yellow end paper without dedication. Original clean and straight black cloth binding with gilt author's signature to the front board and white, yellow and red letters to the spine. No previous owner's marks to the end papers; very clean and tight end papers and text block with no spotting or sunning. Dust jacket condition: Very Good: striking black and yellow design by Paul Bacon of elegantly dressed couple to front cover with grey author and title letters. Nicks to spine tips and to edges of flap bends; very thin scratch to front panel; scuffs to otherwise clean verso (see images). Price clipped.
Seller: M&B Books, London, United Kingdom
Wodehouse, P. G.. The Ice in the Bedroom. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1961.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Signed by P. G. Wodehouse on the front free end paper. Bound in publisher's original black paper boards over black spine cloth stamped in yellow, white and red. Near Fine with light soiling to rear joint, light wear to spine ends, contents lightly tanned. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with slight edge wear, scratch to rear panel; old price sticker ghost to front flap.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P G. Ice in the Bedroom. Simon and Schuster, New York, New York, 1961.
Price: US$1568.60 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine Book & Jacket, No Flaws, Signed to FEP, First Edition US First Print, released 8 months before UK , n in archival protection
Seller: Dallas Surplus Stacks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P. G.. The Ice in the Bedroom.. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961, 1961.
Price: US$1604.08 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Best wishes, P. G. Wodehouse". This novel was published in February, months before its UK release in October. Wodehouse's biographer described it as "one of his best books outside the great sagas and one which upsets the theory that all his best work was done in the period before 1939" (Donaldson, p. 30). A contemporary review noted, "proof of Wodehouse's remarkable stamina comes in Ice in the Bedroom - written at the age of 79 - which concerns Freddie Widgeon, stock market stratagems and a cigar-smoking lady novelist, and few concessions to the world everybody else lives in. It has plenty of the old sparkle" (Leslie, p. 7). McIlvaine A84a. Lady Frances Lonsdale Donaldson, P. G. Wodehouse: A Biography, 1982; Andrew Leslie, "One and Only", The Guardian, 13 Oct. 1961. Octavo. Original dark green quarter cloth, spine lettered in white, yellow, and red, dark purple board sides lettered on front in yellow, endpapers and top edge yellow. With dust jacket designed by Paul Bacon. Small bump to spine ends and top edge of book block, internally clean; jacket a little nicked and rubbed with couple of small abrasions to rear panel, faint splash mark on verso, recto unaffected and bright, unclipped: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1700.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 246 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with red, white and yellow lettering to spine over black boards in original pictorial illustrated jacket designed by Paul Bacon. (McIlvaine A84a.) Inscribed by the author. First American edition precedes the British edition. Ice in the Bedroom is a novel by P.G. Wodehouse, first published as a book in the United States (where the title was The Ice in the Bedroom) on February 2, 1961 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, and in the United Kingdom on October 15, 1961 by Herbert Jenkins, London. The story was originally published, in a condensed version, in Canada in the November 11, 1960 issue of the Star Weekly, the weekend magazine supplement of the Toronto Star newspaper. It features several Wodehouse characters from earlier books, including Drones Club members Freddie Widgeon and Oofy Prosser, and the trio of criminals, "Chimp" Twist and "Soapy" and "Dolly" Molloy. The novel has two intertwined sub-plots. Freddie Widgeon, who wishes to marry Sally Foster, is seeking to escape from a dull job in a London office to become the manager of a coffee plantation in Kenya. Meanwhile, in the normally quiet suburb of Valley Fields, where Freddie is living, a cache of jewelry, hidden in the home of Freddie's neighbor, is attracting the attention of a small gang of petty criminals. The story is essentially a re-working of Sam the Sudden (1925), which was also set in the fictional Valley Fields, had a sub-plot in which the same three crooks were hunting for hidden treasure, and entwined this with a romantic sub-plot. Condition: Signed by P.G. Wodehouse on front free endpaper with inscription "Best wishes". Front hinge cracked. Jacket with some chips and tears, light soiling and wear else very good i like jacket.
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.