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Wodehouse, P.G. Uncle Fred In The Springtime. Herbert Jenkins, 1939.
Price: US$7.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Boards are worn and marked.Ex-library book.Scarring.Tanning.Tightly bound.[R.N]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Wodehouse, P. G.. Uncle Fred In The Springtime. Herbert Jenkins, 1939.
Price: US$9.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Boards are worn and marked.Ex-library book.Last end page torn.Tanning.Previous ownership stamps.Excellent binding.[R.N]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Wodehouse, P.G.. Uncle Fred in the Springtime. Herbert Jenkins 1939, 1939.
Price: US$16.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. no jacket. boards are rubbed and stained- especially on the spine, which has a carefully repaired tear. one previous owner's signature and small stamp mark. foxing on first few pages. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Wodehouse, P. G.. Uncle Fred in the Springtime. Herbert Jenkins Ltd, London, 1939.
Price: US$16.06 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Printing. Size: 12mo (7 to 7.5 inches). Item Type: Book. Binding still very good. Mild uniform browning. Edges moderately browned/ foxed. First free page fairly neatly excised. Standard orange boards.
Seller: Shiny Owl Books, Mona Vale, NSW, Australia
P G WODEHOUSE. UNCLE FRED IN THE SPRINGTIME. HERBERT JENKINS LIMITED, LONDON, 1939.
Price: US$19.25 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Corners are rounded, spine is sunned and faded with some wear to the head and heel. Foxing to fore edge, going onto some pages, but otherwise clean throughout. Good.
Seller: Tobo Books, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Wodehouse, P. G.. Uncle Fred in the Springtime. Herbert Jenkins, London, 1939.
Price: US$19.25 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Original orange cloth, 311 printed pages complete with 2 pages of adverts at rear. Bumped to the spine ends, foxed pages especially to the fore edge.
Seller: Knights Rare Books (Est. 1994), Glastonbury, SOMER, United Kingdom
P. G. Wodehouse. Uncle Fred in The Springtime. Herbert Jenkins Limited, London, 1939.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Orange cloth covered boards, 8vo, 311pp plus ads. third printing, VG++. condition.
Seller: NWJbooks, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P.G.. Uncle fred in the Springtime. Herbert Jenkins, London, 1939.
Price: US$23.10 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Orange clot. Mild damp fading to front and rear edges.311pp with 8pp publishers list of Wodehouse titles.
Seller: valley books, Holton, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Wodehouse, P.G.. Uncle Fred in the Springtime. Herbert Jenkins, 1939.
Price: US$32.08 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Slight marking to cover. No dustjacket. Neat inscription and book plate.
Seller: Richard Selby PBFA, Bath, SOMER, United Kingdom
Price: US$33.06 + shipping
Description: Good copy in the original cloth with a gilt-blocked label to the spine. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Includes previous owner's inscription. Physical description; 311 pages ; 19 cm. Subjects; Humorous stories. Genres; Fiction. Humorous stories. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
P.G.Wodehouse. Uncle Fred in the Springtime. Herbert Jenkins, 1939.
Price: US$35.93 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A first U.K. edition, first issue, of an 'Uncle Fred' novel featuring amongst others Lord Ickenham, the Duke of Dunstable, the Empress of Blandings and the Earl of Emsworth. A Very Good clean copy in dark red boards, the only fault being sunning to the spine, making the gold lettering only just discernible.
Seller: christopher heppa, chelmsford, United Kingdom
Price: US$35.93 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1939, First Printing Reissue. Original orange cloth binding, black lettering to the spine and upper board (First Issue was gold lettering to the spine - McIlvaine), publishers logo to the rear board. What this story is about The duke of Dunstable was a nobleman of proud and haughty spirit, swift to resent affronts and institute reprisals the last person in the world, in short from whom one could hope to withhold pigs with impunity. Yet the Earl of Emsworth, faced by the appalling prospect of losing his prize pig, the Empress of Blandings, and reckless with the courage born of desperation, defied him to do his worst and sought an ally in Frederick, fifth Earl of Ickenham. It was an axiom with Pongo Twistleton that his Uncle Frederick was one of those people who ought not to be allowed at large. When therefore, that irresponsible, perennially youthful peer, masquerading as a famous brain specialist, not only plotted to save the Empress but craftily intervened in the tangled love affair of Polly Pott and the poet Ricky, Pongo feared the worst. And his fears were amply justified. At the critical moment the Dukes coldly efficient secretary, the detested Baxter, aided and abetted by Lady Constance Keeble, threatened to wreck the whole gigantic scheme. Blandings Castle was shaken to its very foundations. 311pp + 8pp advertisements Approximately 7 ½ inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine good condition black lettering, bruised top and tail, colour has faded. Joints good condition gently rubbed and worn. Corners good condition bumped and worn. Boards good condition orange cloth boards, black lettering to the upper board and the publishers logo to the rear, discoloured in places. Page edges good condition top edge slightly darkened, all plain, tanned and foxed. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition intact. Paste downs good condition plain, lightly tanned with some foxing. End papers good condition plain, tanned and foxed, there is a previous owners name on the front end paper dated 1939. Title good condition lightly tanned and foxed. Pages good condition half title present, lightly tanned throughout with some foxing. Binding good condition. See photos Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1939 Binding: Hardback
Seller: Louis88Books (Members of the PBFA), Andover, United Kingdom
WODEHOUSE, P.G.. Uncle Fred in the Springtime. London: Herbert Jenkins (1939)., 1939.
Price: US$38.50 + shipping
Description: First English edition, first printing, second issue, 8vo, 311, (1, 8 advertisement) pp. Small, almost imperceptibly closed tear to the lower corner of the half title. Original orange cloth, spine and top edge slightly dull. McIlvaine A61b-2. Reissued with a different colour binding and different advertisements. Originally published a week earlier in the US.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
WODEHOUSE, P.G.. Uncle Fred in the Springtime.. ab. 1939, 1939.
Price: US$43.50 + shipping
Description: London: Herbert Jenkins, n.d. (ab.1939). 8vo. Orig. orange cloth with black lettering. (312, 8pp.). A little foxed.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Price: US$46.00 + shipping
Description: Good copy in the original cloth with a gilt-blocked label to the spine. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Includes previous owner's inscription. Physical description; 311 pages ; 19 cm. Subjects; Humorous stories. Genres; Fiction. Humorous stories. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P G. Uncle Fred in the Springtime. Herbert Jenkins Limited, London, 1939.
Price: US$51.33 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback copy in grey cloth boards with black lettering to spine, black design to front board. No dustjacket. 311pp. Not library copy, no inscriptions. Light rubbing to board edges/corners. (4/5)
Seller: CURIO, Grimsby, N. E. Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$55.10 + shipping
Description: Poor copy in the original cloth. Hinges starting. Scattered foxing throughout. Text remains clear without blemish. Physical description: 311p. 19cm. Subjects: Impostors and imposture; Fiction.Eccentrics and eccentricities; Fiction. Uncles; Fiction. Blandings Castle (England: Imaginary place); Fiction. Humorous stories. England. Fiction in English 1900-1945 Texts. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
P. G. Wodehouse. Uncle Fred in the Springtime. Herbert Jenkins, London, 1939.
Price: US$57.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first edition of this very popular work by P.G Wodehouse. The first edition. A later edition of the first impression. Due to its popularity when published this book was reissued with a different colour binding and different advertisement. Uncle Fred in Springtime is set in the idyllic Blandings Castle home of Clarence, Earl of Emsworth. It features Uncle Fred who first appeared in a short story titled Uncle Fred Fits By. In the original publisher's cloth. Externally generally smart. Light marks to the boards. A small damp stain on the front board. Internally firmly bound. Spotting to the first and last pages but generally pages are bright and clean. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
WODEHOUSE, P.G. Uncle Fred in the Springtime. Herbert Jenkins Ltd 1939, 1939.
Price: US$61.14 + shipping
Description: First Edition, red cloth boards, black lettering to front board and spine, with black publishers motif to spine, 211pp + vii adverts, VG (v. slight fading to spine and 1cm of boards, moderate browning to eps, light foxing to page edges bleeding on to text block)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
WODEHOUSE, P. G.. Uncle Fred in Springtime. Herbert Jenkins, 1939.
Price: US$64.16 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. First issue plum cloth with gilt titles to spine. Plum todedge. A very good+ copy with light edgewear to extremities. No marks to cloth. Internally clean with no inscriptions. A very good+ copy. McIlvaine A61b. Fifth Earl of Ickenham aka Uncle Fred, journeys to Blandings Castle to steal the Empress of Blandings before the ill tempered Duke of Dunstable can lay claim to her.
Seller: Julian Roberts Fine Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Description: Poor copy in the original cloth. Hinges starting. Scattered foxing throughout. Text remains clear without blemish. Physical description: 311p. 19cm. Subjects: Impostors and imposture; Fiction.Eccentrics and eccentricities; Fiction. Uncles; Fiction. Blandings Castle (England: Imaginary place); Fiction. Humorous stories. England. Fiction in English 1900-1945 Texts. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
P.g.wodehouse. Uncle Fred in the Springtime. Herbert Jenkins, London, 1939.
Price: US$70.58 + shipping
Description: Red cloth binding ,worn and faded,pages are discoloured and page 177 is loose.Inscription of owner on front page in ink.
Seller: susan emson, Cirencester, United Kingdom
P G Wodehouse. Uncle Fred in the Springtime. Herbert Jenkins, 1939.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A near fine copy of the first issue which has a couple of minute holes ,less than 1mm at the spine join ,otherwise a really nice copy Language: eng
Seller: Dick Neal Fine Books, Booker Bay, NSW, Australia
Price: US$100.09 + shipping
Description: 8vo., Third Impression; orange cloth, upper board and backstrip framed and lettered in black, top lightly dust-soiled else a remarkably bright, fresh, crisp copy. With 8pp publisher's catalogue at end. Bright copy of the fifth Blandings episode and the first to feature Uncle Fred. First published in the UK earlier in the same (?)year (following publication in the USA a month earlier). EARLY PRINTINGS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
WODEHOUSE, P. G.. Uncle Fred in the Springtime. Herbert Jenkins Ltd, London, 1939.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Description: First printing. Octavo (19cm). Red cloth, titled in gilt on spine; plain endpapers; 311,[5]pp; 3pp of publisher's ads at rear. Bookplate of Douglas R. Vining. A straight, sound copy, spine sunned, edges rubbed, endpapers browned: Very Good. The fifth Blandings novel, preceded by the Doubleday, Doran & Co. US edition of the same year. MCILVAINE A61b.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P. G.. Uncle Fred in the Springtime. Herbert Jenkins Ltd 1939, 1939.
Price: US$122.27 + shipping
Description: Ex library, first edition, octavo, teal cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 311pp + 8pp book ads, VG- (binding sloppy, heavy browning to page edges & spine & eps, some bruising & farying to spine exrems & board corners, moderate staining to boards, plot summary glued to fep, moderate foxing throughout) in d/w, VG- (tears with loss, creasing & nicks to all edges & corners & spine extrems)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Price: US$299.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: PRICE REDUCED!!!! Here you have THE First Edition of this wonderful book by P. G. Wodehouse. First published in the United States on August 18, 1939 by Doubleday, Doran, New York, and in the United Kingdom on August 25, 1939 by Herbert Jenkins, London, so for a fraction of the UK first listed here, you get THE true first. This one is quite rare and while the dust jacket has some chipping along the top edge (visible in pics), it is good to very good shape and it protected the book itself which is in very good shape. The dust jacket is not price clipped and FIRST EDITION is stated on the publisher's page. This is nice book with no names or writing, only a small bookseller sticker on the back end paper which could probably be removed but since it was from my small hometown I left it.
Seller: Twain of Thought Rare Books, Summerfield, NC, U.S.A.
P G WODEHOUSE. UNCLE FRED IN THE SPRINGTIME. Herbert Jenkins, 1939.
Price: US$325.11 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket unclipped later edition with 5 shilling price on spine in near mint Condition: 1st Edition. No Inscriptions. Maroon covers are slightly rubbed to the gilt lettering. In original Fenwick designed pictorial dust jacket which has some general shelfwear. 311pp + ads.
Seller: Trinity Books, Boyle, ROSCO, Ireland
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 292 pages. Octavo (8" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's green cloth with dark brown decoration on spine in original pictorial jacket. Precedes the British edition. (APG, Wodehouse: 069a) First American edition. Uncle Fred in the Springtime is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on 18 August 1939 by Doubleday, Doran, New York, and in the United Kingdom on 25 August 1939 by Herbert Jenkins, London. It is set at the idyllic Blandings Castle, home of Clarence, Earl of Emsworth, the fifth full-length novel to be set there. It also features Uncle Fred, who first appeared in the short story "Uncle Fred Flits By", which was included in the 1936 collection Young Men in Spats, and would feature in three further novels. When Alaric, Duke of Dunstable decides to take Empress of Blandings away from her loving master and get her fit, Lord Emsworth calls in the services of the redoubtable Uncle Fred. Fred arrives full of the joys of spring, with nephew Pongo Twistleton and old friend Polly Pott in tow, and despite the efforts of the efficient Baxter, endeavors to scupper the Duke and bring together a variety of romantic couplings. Condition: Lightly soiled, spine ends and corners rubbed with a bit of fraying, corners bumped. Jacket restored by Octavaye Studios, back dampened at fold over with fading of red lettering else a very good copy in like jacket.
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P.G.. Uncle Fred In The Springtime. Herbert Jenkins, London, 1939.
Price: US$449.14 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 311. 3 pp. advertisements bound in at rear. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. illustrated dustwrapper. Dustwrapper illustration by Fenwick. First UK edition, published on 25 August 1939; the US edition appeared one week earlier. Serialised in Saturday Evening Post in April/May of that year. 'Uncle Fred was an afterthought, a late-1930s addition to Wodehouse's world, an irrepressible bounder of sixty-something whom Wodehouse saw as 'a sort of elderly Psmith'. [He] would be one of Wodehouse's most enduring heroes, later starring in Uncle Dynamite (1948), Cocktail Time (1958), and Service With A Smile (1962). But in Uncle Fred in the Springtime, he gets his name in the title, a sure indication of Wodehouse's delight in his company.' A very nice copy in the scarce dustwrapper. McIlvaine A61b
Seller: Neil Pearson Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
WODEHOUSE, P. G.. Uncle Fred in the Springtime. Herbert Jenkins 1939, 1939.
Price: US$479.92 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, octavo, teal cloth boards with brown lettering to spine, brown motif to spine & rear board, 311pp + 8pp ads, VG (light bruising & rubbing to spine extrems & board corners, slight rubbing & soiling to boards, light tanning to eps, light tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, G+ (1cm sections of loss to upper & lower spine, 6cm tear with loss to rear, 1cm wide section of loss across lower front edge, light soiling rubbing & foxing, heavy bruising & creasing to edges, many untidy tears & chips to edges)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Price: US$506.89 + shipping
Description: [Humour] FIRST UK EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.311; [1], blank; [3], advertisements; [1], blank. Publisher's primary binding of burgundy cloth titled in gilt to spine (sheets later issued in orange cloth), pictorial dust-jacket designed by Fenwick, priced at 7/6. No inscriptions. Contents clean, some toning to edges and endpapers, gilt a little dulled, jacket toned to spine, price label partially removed, area of soiling to same, some edge tears/small nicks. Overall very good. McIlvaine A61b.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
WODEHOUSE, P.G.. Uncle Fred in the Springtime. Herbert Jenkins Limited, London, 1939.
Price: US$736.13 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London, Herbert Jenkins Limited, August 1939 (first UK edition, preceded by the US edition by only one week: they were published on 25 August and 18 August respectively). Octavo, 311, [1] (blank), [8] (publisher's advertisements for other Wodehouse publications) pages. Aqua-coloured cloth lettered in brown on the spine, with the publisher's logo in brown at the rear; covers lightly rubbed and bumped at the extremities; head of the front joint a little abraded; edges very lightly marked; endpapers offset; an excellent copy with the unclipped (but unpriced) colour-pictorial dustwrapper a little torn and chipped, with minimal loss to the corner tips and the ends of the spine, and with minor surface loss to the front panel (five small and unobtrusive patches). 'Herbert Jenkins' Colonial Library' is printed in white on the lime-green oval-shaped panel near the foot of the spine, in place of the original published price of '7/6 net'. McIlvaine A61b3 (the second reissue of the first printing, differing only in the colour of the binding and the number of pages of advertisements).
Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
WODEHOUSE, P. G.. Uncle Fred in the Springtime.. London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1939, 1939.
Price: US$1924.90 + shipping
Description: First UK edition, first impression, in the second of three binding variants. It was first printed in the Saturday Evening Post from 22 April to 27 May 1939, and the US edition precedes the UK one by a week. The titular character first appears in "Uncle Fred Flits By" (Young Men in Spats, 1936). A contemporary review declared that "What Zeus is to the Olympians, so is Uncle Fred. to the members of the Wodehouse mythology" (Truth, p. 271). McIlvaine A61b. Truth, 1 September 1939. Octavo. Original orange cloth, front board and spine lettered in black. With dust jacket. Browning to endpapers, edges and outer leaves foxed; jacket spine panel toned, lightly soiled, a few chips and tears to edges, unclipped: a very good copy in like jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
P g Wodehouse. Uncle Fred in the Springtime. Herbert Jenkins, 1939.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: London colonial turquoise cloth NF/NF .Light rubbing ,no inscriptions foxing or staining .The wrapper has been strengthened at top and bottom with archival tape which secures closed tears and chips ,a nice copy Language: eng
Seller: Dick Neal Fine Books, Booker Bay, NSW, Australia
P g Wodehouse. Uncle Fred in the Springtime. McClelland & Stewart, 1939.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Toronto red cloth .The book has no iscriptions foxing or stains .The wrapper has some small nibbles at top and bottom of spine with archival tape to secure some short closed tears at head and tail. I have never been able to understand why the Canadian editions are so undervalued as the print runs were under 1000 when the Herbert Jenkins UK firsts were 5000+ ,but it probably comes back to how many collectors there are . Language: eng
Seller: Dick Neal Fine Books, Booker Bay, NSW, Australia
P g Wodehouse. Uncle Fred in the Springtime. Herbert Jenkins, 1939.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London, dark red cloth ,gold lettering on spine.Book has some light wear ,no foxing ,inscriptions or staining. The wrapper has had repairs to three chips and has paper archival tape at top and bottom to secure short closed tears .A nice copy Language: eng
Seller: Dick Neal Fine Books, Booker Bay, NSW, Australia