Service with a Smile

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Author: Pelham Grenville "P G" Wodehouse (1881-1975) Year: 1961 Publisher: Simon Schuster Place: New York Description: 218 pages Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in quarter purple with white lettering to spine over black blind stamped cover in original pictorial jacket. (APG: 99a) First American edition limited to 10,000 copies. Service with a Smile is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on 15 October 1961 by Simon Schuster, Inc., New York, and in the United Kingdom on 17 August 1962 by Herbert Jenkins, London. It is the eighth full-length novel set at Blandings Castle, and features the unstoppable Uncle Fred in his fourth and final novel appearance. Since it is easier for a camel to escort another camel through the eye of a needle than for a blurb writer to guide one through the blissful maze of a P G Wodehouse plot - let us say about Service with a Smile that it is clearly about pigs (since Lord Emsworth of Blandings Castle and George Wellbeloved are involved): that it is about trying to make the course of young love run smooth despite many bumps in the path (since Uncle Fred is involved): that it is about all things merry and unexpected and hilarious (since P G Wodehouse is involved). Condition: Light rubbing to spine heal. Jacket corners lightly chipped, some small closed edge tears, price clipped. Over all better than very good copy in like jacket.

• Binding: Hardcover

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