Summer Lightning: Blandings Castle #4
by Wodehouse, P. G
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
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Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
First Edition thus, with frontispiece, title-vignette, illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and endpaper maps; pictorial cloth, gilt back, a fine copy bound in fully illustrated cloth in publisher's slip-case also in fine condition. Black and white illustrations throughout by Paul Cox and with pictorial cloth covers with drawings by the artist.
Hugh Carmody loved Millicent, Lord Emsworth niece, but he was very good friends with Sue Brown - an attachment which Millicent, perhaps, could hardly be expected to enthuse over. Ronnie Fish loved Sue, and entertained feelings of unrestrained ferocity towards Pilbeam, a blister of the first water, who was pestering her with flowers. When Millicent and Ronnie heard that Hugo and Sue were having dinner on the quiet, there was trouble; and when Ronnie, descending upon Mario's, found not Hugo but the execrable Pilbeam, summer lightning flashed in truth. How Lord Emsworth's pig was stolen, how Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe was accused of the crime, how Mr Baxter fell out of windows and drove Lord Emsworth to the verge of desperation, and much more is all told in Mr Wodehouse's inimitable manner
Synopsis
Summer Lightning is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the U.S. on 1 July 1929 by Doubleday Doran, New York, under the title Fish Preferred, and in the UK on 19 July 1929 by Herbert Jenkins, London. It forms part of the Blandings Castle saga, being the third full-length novel to be set there, after Something Fresh (1915) and Leave it to Psmith (1923). Heavy Weather (1933) forms a semi-sequel to the story, with many of the same characters involved.
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- Bookseller
- Lansdowne Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 357
- Title
- Summer Lightning
- Author
- Wodehouse, P. G
- Illustrator
- Paul Cox
- Format/Binding
- In publisher's slip-case
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Folio Society
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Folio Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2004
- Pages
- 275pp
- Size
- 8vo.,
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated; First Edition; Folio Society; Humour; Classic; collectible;
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