Uncle Dynamite
by Wodehouse, P. G
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good, 1st edution, with clipped d/j (some bumping), orange boards clean with black cover and spine titling; text block firm
- Seller
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd, 1948. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edution, with clipped d/j (some bumping), orange boards clean with black cover and spine titling; text block firm, pages unmarked and tight.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Uncle Dynamite is a novel by P.G. Wodehouse, featuring the mischievous Uncle Fred, who had previously appeared in Uncle Fred in the Springtime (1939). When Otis Painter, a struggling publisher, inavertently incorporated some art studies of a most indelicate nature into Sir Aylmer Bostick's reminiscences, the choleric Sir Aylmer threatened a ruinous lawsuit.
Synopsis
P.G. Wodehouse was born in 1881. He is the creator of Jeeves, Blandings Castle, Psmith, Ukridge, Uncle Fred and Mr Mulliner stories and novels.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC102107
- Title
- Uncle Dynamite
- Author
- Wodehouse, P. G
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, 1st edution, with clipped d/j (some bumping), orange boards clean with black cover and spine titling; text block firm
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Herbert Jenkins Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1948
- Pages
- 251
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1st, fiction, comedy, Wodehouse
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- Size
- 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_\"\" x 5\"\")
Terms of Sale
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....