Quick Service (Everyman's Library)

Wodehouse, P.G.

ISBN 10: 1841591289 / ISBN 13: 9781841591285

Published by Everyman, London, 2004

About this Item

A very good copy in a near fine dust jacket of the first edition, first printing, of this novel in the very collectible Everyman Wodehouse Series. Dust Jacket: cream coloured textured paper with black lettering to all faces, some white lettering to spine and rear, colour cartoon by Andrzej Klimowski to front, and coloured background to 'blurb' on spine and rear; in near fine condition; very clean and bright; little or no sign of shelf wear; not price clipped (now protected). Cover: blue/grey cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to spine; in very good condition; very clean and bright apart from 2 faint water? marks on front (may be caused by underlying glue as no corresponding mark on dust jacket) ; no other visible signs of shelf wear. Internally: very clean and tightly bound; no markings, inscriptions or book plates; looks unread. 244 pp. We have 60+ other titles in this series. If you are looking for a particular volume, please do get in touch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Quick Service (Everyman's Library)
• Publisher: Everyman, London
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1841591289
• ISBN 13: 9781841591285
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Edmonds
  • Humour
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

When rich and imperious American widow Beatrice Chavender eats a forkful of inferior ham at her sister's country house near London, it affects the lives of everyone around her - her sister, her brother-in-law, her sister's butler, her sister's poor relation Sally, Sally's fiance Lord Holberton, and, most of all, Mrs Chavender's own one-time fiance, 'Ham King' J. B. Duff, whose rotten product spoils her breakfast.

About the Author

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (always known as 'Plum') wrote about seventy novels and some three hundred short stories over seventy-three years. He is widely recognised as the greatest 20th-century writer of humour in the English language. Perhaps best known for the escapades of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, Wodehouse also created the world of Blandings Castle, home to Lord Emsworth and his cherished pig, the Empress of Blandings. His stories include gems concerning the irrepressible and disreputable Ukridge; Psmith, the elegant socialist; the ever-so-slightly-unscrupulous Fifth Earl of Ickenham, better known as Uncle Fred; and those related by Mr Mulliner, the charming raconteur of The Angler's Rest, and the Oldest Member at the Golf Club. In 1936 he was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for 'having made an outstanding and lasting contribution to the happiness of the world'. He was made a Doctor of Letters by Oxford University in 1939 and in 1975, aged ninety-three, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. He died shortly afterwards, on St Valentine's Day.