Cocktail Time

Pelham Grenville "P G" Wodehouse (1881-1975)

Published by Herbert Jenkins Ltd, London, 1958

Condition: Near Fine Hardcover

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222+[2 ad] pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's blue boards with title stamped in gilt onto spine in original pictorial jacket. (APG, Wodehouse: 093a) First British edition with first state jacket. It was never the habit of Frederick, fifth Earl of Ickenham to grumble when events crowded in on him, but he did sometimes feel that the life-work he had set himself of spreading sweetness and light - or, as some preferred to put it, meddling in other people's business - was almost more than any man could be expected to undertake single-handed. So many problems had presented themselves of late, coming up one after the other. First there was the faltering courtship of his godson, Johnny, and the delectable Belinda Farringdon. Then there was Albert Peasmarch's tangled love-life in which the promotion of a union between this admirable butler and the sister of his employer was calling for all that Frederick had of resolution and ingenuity. And thirdly there was the matter of the reformation of Beefy Bastable, whose attitude towards his sister Phoebe, so like that of a snapping turtle suffering from ulcers, Frederick felt it his duty to correct. It is hardly to be wondered at that Frederick confessed to being preoccupied. But happily such moments with him were of fleeting duration. In the present instance the mood came, paused and passed, leaving Frederick with the ball at his feet, eager to lend his statesman-like mind to all mankind in distress. The account of his adventures is a riot of fun from beginning to end. Condition: Corners bumped. Jacket with closed tear and crease at front heal edge, touch of rubbing to points else near fine in a very good to fine jacket. Seller Inventory # L0046

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Title: Cocktail Time

Publisher: Herbert Jenkins Ltd, London

Publication Date: 1958

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition

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