P. G. Wodehouse — Ice in the Bedroom

London, Herbert Jenkins, 1961. First edition. Cloth. A first UK edition, first impression of P. G. Wodehouse's comic novel featuring a small gang of petty criminals, in the first issue dust wrapper. The first UK edition, first impression of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original price-clipped first issue dust wrapper. First published in the US in the same year under the title 'The Ice in the Bedroom', this is the first UK edition. Ice in the Bedroom, the eighth Blandings novel, revisits some of Wodehouse's earlier characters, including the Drones Club members Freddie Widgeon and Oofy Prosser, following two interwoven subplots of Freddie Widgeon who wants to escape London, and a man attracting a gang of petty criminals.One page of advertisements to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original price-clipped dust wrapper. Externally, cloth is very bright and smart. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Dust wrapper remains mostly smart, with sunning to the spine and a little chipping to the head of the spine. Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Fine/Very Good Indeed.