AMERICA, I LIKE YOU de Wodehouse, P. G - 1956

Simon & Schuster, New York, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover (1/4 Cloth 3/4 Boards). Very Good/Good. Illustrator: Marc Simont. The text is illustrated with black-and-white line drawings by Marc Simont. 1/4 cream coloured cloth covered back strip with dark red coloured titles. 3/4 blue coloured boards with metallic red and metallic blue coloured titles to the front panel. Red coloured tint to the top text edge. Illustrated dustwrapper, again by Marc Simont, with red and blue coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Black and white photograph of author to the rear panel. As the author states in the front fold over panel blurb " (this book) is just the simple story of my love affair with United States of America, starting when we were both fifty years younger in a strange city where 30-4th Street was uptown and there was no Marilyn Monroe, Liberace, no Zsa Zsa Gabor and only a rough preliminary scenario of Billy Rose, he being five years old at the time ...." Softening… Leer más

Simon and Schuster, 1956. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Simon and Schuster, January 1956. Hardcover. Good - Cash. Minor wear to cover and pages. Great condition. Has light scribbles inside front and back cover, No dust jacket. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Paperback / softback. New.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. First American edition. Illustrated by Marc Simont. Modest offsetting on the endleaves, near fine in a tanned and foxed, good only dust jacket with several small internal tape reinforcements, and light dampstaining and a small chip at the spine base (affecting a couple of letters of the publisher's name).

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1956 First Printing (stated) in price-clippied dust jacket, no markings, NOT ex-lib, binding tight pages bright & unfoxed, light rubbing & edge wear to jacket with a little loss to ends & corners, two sticker shadows to front panel, else clean tight nice First Edition copy (dj in mylar protector); 8vo; 212pp illus. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good -.

AMERICA, I LIKE YOU, Simon & Schuster, 1956, first edition, near fine in vg+ color pictorial dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956. First American edition of the Wooster and Jeeves creator's memoir. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with line drawings by Marc Simont, magazine review of 'America, I Like You' laid-in. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to David Jasen, "For David from Plum P. G. Wodehouse." The recipient, David A. Jasen, is considered to be the world's foremost expert on ragtime music, having studied, recorded, and performed ragtime music for over five decades. Additionally in 1974, eighteen years after the release of this book, Jasen published the first definitive and authorized biography of Wodehouse, 'P. G. Wodehouse: A Portrait of a Master.' Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Peter Hollander. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed. One of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century, Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse created several characters who became familiar in early 20th century England, including the feather-brained Bertie Wooster… Leer más