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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. 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$1615.43 + 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.