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Wodehouse, P.G.. UNCLE DYNAMITE. Didier, New York, 1948.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover in dust jacket. The jacket has some wear at foldovers, 1/2 inch of chipping to top edge of back panel and head of spine, and 1 1/2 by 1/2 inch chip to foot of spine. Binding has bright color, slight wear to inch of outer hinge, inner hinges tight, contents clean. previous owners stamp on front endpaper. First American edition.
Seller: Collectors Cabinet, Teaneck, NJ, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P. G.. Uncle Dynamite. Didier, Publishers, New York, 1948.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Red cloth-effect boards, spine panel lettered in and with facsimile signature on front cover in silver foil. Slightly rubbed corners and spine extremities. Color illus. dust jacket shows triangular chip 1/2" deep along bottom front edge, 3" closed tear to upper front panel, slightly chipped spine extremities and bottom rear edge, now in mylar. 2nd ptg. 312 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
P.G. Wodehouse. Uncle Dynamite. Didier, New York, 1948.
Price: US$78.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Red cloth over boards, no dust jacket. Author's facsimilie signature in silver on front cover. Author, title, and publisher on spine. Bookplate from former owner on ffep. Illustrated title page and opposite. Illustrated, "Who's Who in Uncle Dynamite." Illustrations at front of sections and chaptes. Shelf wear to edges, some light staining to covers, interior very lightly toned, text clear.
Seller: John and Tabitha's Kerriosity Bookshop, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P. G.. Uncle Dynamite. DIDIER, NEW YORK, 1948.
Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Description: stated second printing; red hardcover; bookplate good condition with rubbed corners, staining to rear cover; no ink inscriptions or markings; dust jacket is chipped, soiled, author bio on rear dust jacket stated 4th printing $2.95 dj price. DATE PUBLISHED: 1948 EDITION: SECOND PRINTIN 312
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P. G.. Uncle Dynamite. New York, Didier, 1948.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Book near fine. Dust jacket price is intact, some chipping to the top edge of the front panel and to the head of the spine, very good overall. First American edition. McIlvaine A68b.
Seller: Darwin Labordo, Books, Sierra Madre, CA, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P.G.. Uncle Dynamite. Didier, New York, 1948.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st U.S. Edition. Hard bound in dust jacket. Dust jacket shows wear with some chipping to top edge, otherwise in very good condition.
Seller: Black Cat Books, Shelter Island, NY, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P.G.. Uncle Dynamite. New York: Didier, 1948, 1948.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. Owner's inscription; very near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with a little spine fading. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P.G.. Uncle Dynamite. Didier, New York, 1948.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. Octavo, original textured red paper over boards, silver lettering, color illustrated dust jacket, black and white illustration on title page spread, some additional black and white illustrations. Wodehouse's second novel featuring Uncle Fred. Very Good, very light shelf wear, in Near Fine dust jacket, small chip at top spine end, slight wear at spine ends and flap corners.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Pelham Grenville "P G" Wodehouse (1881-1975). Uncle Dynamite. Didier Publishers, New York, 1948.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 312 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in publishers original red cloth with silver lettering on boards and spine in original pictorial jacket. [APG Wodehouse 077b] First American edition in a first issue dust wrapper. Uncle Dynamite is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on October 22, 1948 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on November 29, 1948 by Didier & Co., New York. It features the mischievous Uncle Fred, who had previously appeared in Uncle Fred in the Springtime (1939). Frederick Altamont Cornwalis Twistleton, fifth Earl of Ickenham, known to all as Uncle Fred, is on the loose once again (Lady Ickenham having decamped for a wedding in Trinidad), and Reginald ("Pongo") Twistleton, his long-suffering nephew (and Drones Club member) has every right to be petrified. Uncle Fred has just arrived at Ashenden Manor, home of Sir Aylmer Bostock, Pongo's future father-in-law. Pongo is already in residence and has committed two rank floaters: accidentally smashing a whatnot from Sir Aylmer's collection of African curios, and (in the course of demonstrating how Brazilian natives kill birds with rude slings) smashing a coveted bust of his host. Pongo's solution is to replace the busted bust with another one, abstracted from Ickenham hall. But unknown to him, the replacement bust was fashioned by his former fiancée Sally Painter, and conceals valuable jewelry that a friend of hers was planning to smuggle through New York Customs. Sally tries to replace the bust with another of Sir Aylmer she sculpted (but had had returned to her, after an unfortunate incident relating to her brother Otis' publication of Sir Aylmer's memoirs), but this comes to naught, and both busts end up in Sir Aylmer's collection room. Uncle Fred is unruffled by this setback and decides to infiltrate the house as an imposter. Having met Bill Oakshott (an unassuming young man who is the actual owner of Ashenden Manor, but who shrinks from confronting and displacing his bombastic, overbearing uncle Sir Aylmer) on the train, Uncle Fred contrives to get invited to the house under the name of Major Brabazon-Plank. Unfortunately, the local Constable, Harold Potter, happens to have grown up with Major Plank (and also happens to remember arresting Uncle Fred and Pongo at the dog races under the names of Edwin Smith and George Robinson). Potter, intimately tied to the household through his fiancée, the housemaid Elsie Bean, becomes suspicious, and watches the house. Uncle Fred's tasks are: to snatch the bust for Sally Painter; get Sir Aylmer to drop his suit against Otis, so that Sally will not lose the money she invested in his firm; convince Pongo that Hermione Bostock is not the proper wife for him and that Sally is; restore Bill Oakshott to his place as head of his family home and unite him with Hermione, whom he has loved for years; and convince Constable Potter not only to not arrest him, but indeed to quit the force so he and Elsie Bean may live happily ever after. Complications arise, including the arrival of the real Major Brabazon-Plank but his menace is neutralized because of his horror of judging the Bonnie Babies competition at the Ashenden Oakshott Fête, and honor for which Uncle Fred, as the ersatz Major, has volunteered. Bill Oakshott finds inspiration in the dominant hero of Ethel M. Dell's 'The Way of an Eagle'. The story has also been adapted as a serial in six half-hour episodes for BBC Radio 4, starring Richard Briers as Uncle Fred and Hugh Grant as Pongo, with narration by Paul Eddington. Condition: Corners bumped and rubbed, spine heal moderately rubbed. Jacket lightly soiled and professionally restored by Octavaye Studios else a very good copy in like dust jacket.
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P.G.. Uncle Dynamite. Didier [1948], New York, 1948.
Price: US$440.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo (20.75cm.); original simulated cloth in pictorial price clipped dust jacket; [8],312pp. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed with a couple of small losses to top edge of upper panel, neither touching text or illustration, spine slightly cocked, else Very Good and sound. The second Uncle Fred novel.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P.G.. Uncle Dynamite. Didier, New York, 1948.
Price: US$513.10 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 312. Original red boards, lettered in silver to spine, facsimile signature in silver to front panel. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, with two short closed tears and a single small chip to foot of spine. First US edition, published five weeks after its UK counterpart. The second Uncle Fred novel. Uncle Dynamite was the first book Wodehouse had published in the United States following his split from Doubleday: 'He blamed the move on 'the Doubleday organisation', which, he felt, was a 'huge factory' that did not care about his books. In England, Uncle Dynamite sold as well as Spring Fever, but in America, despite Didier's efforts, sales were not enhanced.' (McCrum) McIlvaine A68b
Seller: Neil Pearson Rare Books, London, United Kingdom