GOOD to VERY GOOD
CONDITION
This sale is for a
vintage edition entitled “Do Butlers
Burgle Banks?” by P. G. Wodehouse
(1881-1975).
It was published
by Penguin Books, of London, and is the 10th modern reprint of the 1979
paperback edition, estimate circa 2000 (the FIRST EDITION was published in 1968
by Herbert Jenkins).
‘Unless some
kindly burglar takes it into his head to burgle the bank before the examiners
arrive, I’m for it,’ said Mike Bond of Bond’s Bank gloomily.
As luck would have
it, that is just what Horace Appleby had in mind. Although it was not for purely altruistic
reasons that the gentlemanly gangster was posing as butler in the Bond
residence.
Whatever their
motives, neither party had reckoned on Horace’s susceptibility to
steak-and-kidney pie and to a female person’s charms or on the
resourcefulness of Mike’s betrothed or on the formidable powers of
Potter of the Yard.
The front cover art
is by “Ionicus” the pen-name of Joshua
Charles Armitage (1913–1998), best-known for illustrating the covers of these
Penguin paperback editions of books by P. G. Wodehouse, although for
40 years he contributed cartoons and drawings to the Punch satirical magazine
as well as illustrations to other books.
The book measures 7.75
inches x 5 inches and has 159 pages.
The book is in
good, internally neat condition for a softback of its age, save bumps to the
corners (bruise to the top front corners). There are NO
inscriptions/book-plates and NO other ink or pencil markings in the book. The binding is good with no loose or missing
pages.
A good, neat copy
of this vintage edition.
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