Service with a Smile
by Wodehouse, P. G
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good, 1st UK edition (1st printing), missing d/j, red clothbound boards (slight fading on spine); gilt spine titling faded,
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About This Item
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1962. 1st UK. h/b. Very good, 1st UK edition (1st printing), missing d/j, red clothbound boards (slight fading on spine); gilt spine titling faded, text block firm; pages unmarked and crisp (slight foxing on edges). Owner's neat inscription on front pastedown.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). With the Duke of Dunstable trying to steal his pig to sell to Lord Tilbury, mischievous Church Lads camping in his park, his sister Constance bossing him unmercifully, and Lavender Briggs, his secretary, making life miserable, Lord Emsworth has little time to concentrate on the invasion of Blandings Castle by yet another impostor. But Bill Bailey, a.k.a. Cuthbert Meriwether, has inveigled himself into the castle to be with his beloved, Myra Schoonmaker, who is staying there under the eagle eye of Lady Constance, and Lady Constance is determined to thwart him. In the end virtue conquers vice: the lovers are united, Dunstable defeated and Tilbury trounced, but only through the brilliant plotting of Frederick, Earl of Ickenham whose greatest triumph is to marry off Lady Constance to an old admirer, Myra's father. In the end everyone is happy who deserves to be, none more so than Lord Emsworth who at one fell swoop frees himself from the tyranny of a duke, a secretary and a sister.
Synopsis
Service With a Smile is a novel by P.G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on October 15, 1961 by Simon & Schuster, Inc. , New York, and in the United Kingdom on August 17, 1962 by Herbert Jenkins, London. It is the eighth full-length novel set at the beautiful Blandings Castle, and features the unstoppable Uncle Fred in his fourth and final novel appearance.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC133244
- Title
- Service with a Smile
- Author
- Wodehouse, P. G
- Format/Binding
- H/b
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, 1st UK edition (1st printing), missing d/j, red clothbound boards (slight fading on spine); gilt spine titling faded,
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st UK
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Herbert Jenkins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1962
- Pages
- 192
- Size
- 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5"")
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1st UK, fiction, humour, comedy, Wodehouse
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
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