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Uncle Fred In The Springtime
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Uncle Fred In The Springtime Hardcover - 1939

by Wodehouse, P. G. Press, The Overlook

  • Used
  • poor
  • Hardcover
  • first

Spring brings four more antic novels by P. G. Wodehouse. In Quick Service a complicated chain of events is set into motion after Mrs. Chavender takes a bite of breakfast ham, and readers are reminded that disaster can be averted if you Ring for Jeeves. Bertie Wooster avoids Madeleine Bassett in Much Obliged, Jeeves, at Blandings Castle, in Uncle Fred in the pringtime, Uncle Fred is asked to foil a plot to steal a prize pig.

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New York: Doubleday, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Poor/No dust jacket. 7.3 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches. Rare 1st edition Doubleday in green cloth covers; 1939. There is water damage and soiling to the last third of the book. The binding is tight. Electronic delivery tracking will be issued free of charge.
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  • Title Uncle Fred In The Springtime
  • Author Wodehouse, P. G. Press, The Overlook
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Poor
  • Pages 208 pages
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Doubleday, New York
  • Date 1939
  • Features Dust Cover
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 07026
  • ISBN 9781585675272 / 158567527X
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.28 x 5.44 x 1.14 in (18.49 x 13.82 x 2.90 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Humorous fiction, Blandings Castle (England: Imaginary place)
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Summary

'You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour.' Stephen FryA Blandings novelUncle Fred is one of the hottest earls that ever donned a coronet. Or as he crisply said, 'There are no limits, literally none, to what I can achieve in the springtime.'Even so, his gifts are stretched to the limit when he is urged by Lord Emsworth to save his prize pig, the Empress of Blandings, from the enforced slimming cure of the haughty Duke of Dunstable. Pongo Twistleton knows his debonair but wild uncle shouldn't really be allowed at large - especially when disguised as a brain surgeon. He fears the worst. And his fears are amply justified.

First line

The door of the Drones Club swung open, and a young man in form-fitting tweeds came down the steps and started to walk westwards.

Media reviews

'The very definition of British humor... in suave hardcover volumes, the dust jackets as natty as the prose.' (Entertainment Weekly)

About the author

P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) grew up in England and came to the United States just before World War I, when he married an American. He wrote more than ninety books, and his works, translated into many languages, won him worldwide acclaim.

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