Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin
by Pelham Grenville "P G" Wodehouse (1881-1975)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very good to fine
- ISBN 10
- 0214668142
- ISBN 13
- 9780214668142
- Seller
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About This Item
192 pages. Octavo (8" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's green boards with gilt lettering to spine in pictorial dust jacket. (APG Wodehouse: 110a) First edition.
Monty Bodkin's year in Hollywood is completed and he has returned to London, leaving his secretary Sandy Miller heartbroken, her love unmentioned, unrequited. Monty's desires lie elsewhere - with the English hockey international Gertrude Butterwick to be precise. Butterwick pere is horrified at Monty's return, Ivor Llewellyn breathes a huge sigh of relief, and the Drones Club pricks up its ears. Attentive students of the Wodehouse canon will recall that Mr Butterwick made it a condition of Monty's betrothal to Gertrude that Monty would hold down a job for a year, which more or less sank any chance of the liaison coming to a fruition; but Monty succeeded in blackmailing Mr Llewellyn into giving him a job. Now, with the conditions plainly satisfied, Monty confronts Mr Butterwick to claim the hand of Gertrude. His return to London should, he feels, be in the style of a Roman triumph. But Hell hath no fury like a flummoxed Butterwick, and the Bodkin road to happiness is arduous and pitfall through and through.
Condition: Corners bumped. Dust jacket lightly chipped front heal corner and head spine ends else a near fine copy in a very good to fine dust jacket.
Monty Bodkin's year in Hollywood is completed and he has returned to London, leaving his secretary Sandy Miller heartbroken, her love unmentioned, unrequited. Monty's desires lie elsewhere - with the English hockey international Gertrude Butterwick to be precise. Butterwick pere is horrified at Monty's return, Ivor Llewellyn breathes a huge sigh of relief, and the Drones Club pricks up its ears. Attentive students of the Wodehouse canon will recall that Mr Butterwick made it a condition of Monty's betrothal to Gertrude that Monty would hold down a job for a year, which more or less sank any chance of the liaison coming to a fruition; but Monty succeeded in blackmailing Mr Llewellyn into giving him a job. Now, with the conditions plainly satisfied, Monty confronts Mr Butterwick to claim the hand of Gertrude. His return to London should, he feels, be in the style of a Roman triumph. But Hell hath no fury like a flummoxed Butterwick, and the Bodkin road to happiness is arduous and pitfall through and through.
Condition: Corners bumped. Dust jacket lightly chipped front heal corner and head spine ends else a near fine copy in a very good to fine dust jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- L2704
- Title
- Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin
- Author
- Pelham Grenville "P G" Wodehouse (1881-1975)
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very good to fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0214668142
- ISBN 13
- 9780214668142
- Publisher
- Barrie & Jenkins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1972
- Pages
- 192 pages
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Humor
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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