Thursday, July 5, 2007

451. Summer Lightning (P. G. Wodehouse)

Cover of first edition

Synopsis from Amazon UK:

Clarence, 9th Earl of Emsworth, is preoccupied with his prize-winning pig, the Empress of Blandings, and the upcoming agricultural show, while the news that his brother, Galahad Threepwood, is writing his memoirs, has many ageing aristocrats worried.

My rating: 5 stars

Publication information:
  • 1929
  • Herbert Jenkins, London
  • Orange cloth & black lettering & designs
  • Copyright page states "First printing 1929.."
  • Dust wrapper priced at 7/6
  • Fish Preferred -- US title
    • 1929
    • Doubleday Doran, NY

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