P. G. Wodehouse — A Gentleman of Leisure

London, Herbert Jenkins, 1949 . Cloth. The fourteenth printing of P. G. Wodehouse's popular farcical comic novel, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The fourteenth printing of this work, 'completing 115,078 copies&apos.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.A typically Wodehousean romantic story, set at the stately Dreever Castle, which is populated by imposters, detectives, crooks, scheming lovers and conniving aunts.Undated; dated 1949 via advertisement for 'The Mating Season' to front flyleaf.First published in 1910, the novel was adapted into a motion picture in 1915 and in 1923.Inscription to head of front free endpaper In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally bright, with light spotting to text block fore edge. Inscription to head of front free endpaper. Significant loss and significant closed tear to head of dust wrapper rear wrap. Small closed tears to head and tail of front wrap. Losses to back strip head and tail, repaired with tape to the reverse. Further tape repairs to dust wrapper reverse at perimeters. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Good Only.