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Item Description

FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 5.25 x 8 inches. 224 pp. Bound in original red cloth, gilt, in pictorial dust wrapper, which is worn and chipped and torn at edges, including missing section at top of rear wrapper with no loss of text. Extremities a little worn and foxing confined to edges. 1965 gift inscription on first free endpaper. First UK edition of the ninth Blandings Castle novel by P. G. Wodehouse. The US edition was published under a different title several months earlier. (McIlvaine A88b; Jasen 87a).