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WODEHOUSE, P.G.. The mating season. Herbert Jenkins, London, 1949.
Price: US$8.90 + shipping
Description: 1st edition, 1949. Rear pastedown nastily stained; rear free end paper missing; small stain on last few pages; page fore-edge lightly foxed & stained; spine faded, with some fading to orange cloth on boards. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket)
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
P.G. Wodehouse. The Mating Season. Herbert Jenkins, 1949.
Price: US$25.62 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: first, orange binding, tanned foxed top edge
Seller: Border Books, Hebden Bridge, United Kingdom
P.G. Wodehouse. The Mating Season. Herbert Jenkins, 1949.
Price: US$36.00 + shipping
Description: First English Edition. Good to Very Good condition.
Seller: My Book Heaven, Alameda, CA, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P. G.. The Mating Season. Herbert Jenkins, London, 1949.
Price: US$37.10 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First Printing stated. Orange boards with black titles. Slight forward lean but firm. Pushing and rubbing to spine tips and leading corners. Some creasing to front board. Front hinge starting. Book store stamp to front paste-down. Inscription to ffep. Light foxing to prelims and fore-edges.
Seller: The Secret Bookshop, Tararua, New Zealand
WODEHOUSE, P. G.. The Mating Season. Herbert Jenkins 1949, 1949.
Price: US$39.52 + shipping
Description: First edition, orange cloth boards with black lettering to spine & front board, black motif to spine & rear board, 246pp + 2pp ads, VG (light bruising to lower spine extrem, light foxing to eps & page edges) in d/w, VG- (2cm section of loss to lower spine, 3cm closed tear to rear, 1cm tear with loss to upper spine extrem, light rubbing soiling & foxing, bruising with small tears to edges)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Wodehouse, P. G.. The Mating Season. Herbert Jenkins London 1949, 1949.
Price: US$52.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition hardback in original cloth Very Good small octavo 246pp., Nice bright clean copy
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
WODEHOUSE, P. G.. The Mating Season. Herbert Jenkins Ltd, London, 1949.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Description: First printing. Octavo (19cm). Orange cloth, stamped in black on boards and spine; plain endpapers; 246,[2]pp; 2pp of publisher's ads at rear. A sound copy, rubbed, with light soil to cloth, spine much sunned, lightly foxed: Good. MCILVAINE A69A.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
P.G. Wodehouse. The Mating Season. Herbert Jenkins, 1949.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description:
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
P G Wodehouse. The Mating Season. Herbert Jenkins, 1949.
Price: US$96.06 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Orange cloth - a few slightly faded areas to front board. Binding secure but slightly slanted. Top edges dusty. Dustwrapper not price-clipped but a sq. inch missing at lower end of spine. Wear and tears to top edge. Presentable in new Brodart plastic overwrapper.
Seller: Ystwyth Books, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
Price: US$115.28 + shipping
Description: 8vo., First Edition, small neat contemporary signature on front paste-down; orange cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, backstrip mildly sunned else a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. With 2pp publisher's advertisement at end. The fifth Bertie-Jeeves novel and the first appearance of Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright. Predates the US edition which appeared two months later. UNCOMMON. Connolly 85; Jasen 68; McIlvaine A69a.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Wodehouse, P. G.. THE MATING SEASON. Herbert Jenkins, 1949.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Description: THE MATING SEASON, Herbert Jenkins, 1949, first edition, near fine in bright near vg dust-wrapper with several small chips and tears.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P.G.. The Mating Season. Herbert Jenkins Ltd [1949], London, 1949.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Description: First Impression. Octavo; orange cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 246pp, [2] ads. Bookplate to front endpaper, hint of a forward lean, with a touch of darkening to upper boards edges; Near Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped, gently sunned at spine, with light edgewear overall and a few closed tears; Very Good+. The fifth Jeeves and Bertie Wooster novel, and the first to introduce Catsmeat Pirbright.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
P.G. Wodehouse. The Mating Season. Herbert Jenkins, London, 1949.
Price: US$249.77 + shipping
Description: The first edition, first printing of this humorous novel by British satirist P.G. Wodehouse, enclosed in the original pictorial dust wrapper. The Mating Season is a very entertaining Jeeves & Wooster novel, set in Deverill Hall in which loom five overcritical aunts.This is a classic example of Wodehousian literature, with many interweaving love interests and exaggerated imagery.The first edition, first printing of this work.P. G. Wodehouse is an influential and very popular humorist author, best known for the creation of his characters Bertie Wooster and his valet, Jeeves. He was a prolific author, publishing more than ninety books.Enclosed in the original bright dust wrapper.Containing two pages of publisher's adverts to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart and bright, with just some light bumping and fading to the cloth at the head and tail of the spine. Spine is slightly darkened. Original unclipped dust wrapper is very smart and bright, with some light chipping and a few small closed tears to the extremities, and a few marks to the rear of the wrap. Internally, front hinge is lightly strained, remaining binding is firm. A few spots to the fore-edge, though pages remain bright and clean. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Pelham Grenville "P G" Wodehouse (1881-1975). The Mating Season. Didier Publishers, New York, 1949.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 246 pages with illustrated title and illustrations and jacket cover by Hal McIntosh. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5"). bound in original publisher's orange cloth with black lettering to cover and spine with black decoration on spine in original pictorial jacket. (APG: 79a) First American edition. The Mating Season is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 9 September 1949 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on November 29, 1949 by Didier & Co., New York. It stars Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves. It is the second installment of the Totleigh Towers saga, chronicling Bertie's continuing difficulties with Madeline Bassett. Bertie Wooster and Gussie Fink-Nottle swap their identities, while Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright pretends to be the faux-Gussie's valet Meadowes and Jeeves pretends to be the faux-Bertie's valet, before complications ensue. Together, they find themselves at the Aunt-ridden Deverill Hall, Hampshire, seat of the imposing Dame Daphne Winkworth, where Gussie's on-off engagement to Madeline Bassett is once again in danger, leaving Bertie at risk of becoming reattached to her. Bertie must also defend his friend Catsmeat's girl Gertrude Winkworth, daughter of Dame Daphne, from the attentions of the attractive Esmond Haddock, while avoiding fulfilling his Aunt Agatha's wish that he marry her himself. All of Jeeves' considerable powers are required to bring things to a satisfactory conclusion. The story was adapted during the 1990-1993 British TV series Jeeves and Wooster (episode #15 "Right Ho! Jeeves", fourth of season three, aired 19 April 1992 in the UK). The story contains a synopsis of Mervyn Keene, Clubman which is the most complete example of the works of Rosie M. Banks ever given in the works of Wodehouse. Its recitation by Madeline Bassett leaves hearer Bertie Wooster in a state of dazed horror. At the time of writing there was bad blood between Wodehouse and fellow author A. A. Milne. The book included several satirical jibes aimed at Milne, for instance after Bertie (pressured by Madeline Bassett) agrees to recite Christopher Robin poems at the village concert, he laments: "A fellow who comes on a platform and starts reciting about Christopher Robin going hoppity-hoppity-hop (or alternatively saying his prayers) does not do so from sheer wantonness but because he is a helpless victim of circumstances beyond his control." Condition: Previous owner's stamp on front end paper, light rubbing to spine heal, light Shelf wear. Dust jacket professionally restored else better than very good in a near fine dust wrapper.
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P.G.. The Mating Season. Herbert Jenkins, London, 1949.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Slightly spine-cocked, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with a couple of tiny tears. A bright copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.