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London : Herbert Jenkins, 1936. 5th Impression. Hardcover. Bookplate on front paste-down. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Lacks the front free end-paper. Some wear to spine. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Series: A Herbert Jenkins book. Physical description: 311 pages, 8 unnumbered pages ; 19cm. Subjects: English fiction -- 20th century.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1936. [Comic novel] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[vi]; 303; [3] blank. Publisher's orange cloth titled in black to spine, with black illustration to spine and upper board, top-edge dark orange. Pictorial dust jacket priced at $2.00. Toning to endpapers and edges, dustiness to top edge, neat ownership inscription to flyleaf. Cloth a little worn, spine ends pushed. Wrapper slightly soiled, rubbed to folds with some quite substantial chipping to edges. Very good. Set in Hollywood in the 1930s, Laughing Gas is a typically Wodehousian look at the film industry. The particular target is child film stars, with whom, by a bizarre mix-up triggered by inhaling nitrus oxide while in the dentist's chair, the protagonist is body-switched. Joey Cooley, Wodehouse's child-star, is forced to subsist on a diet of dried prunes, is effectively held under house arrest, and is kidnapped.