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Love Among the Chickens: A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm
de WODEHOUSE, P.G. (novel); BOTH, Armand (illustrations)
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: The Circle Publishing Company, 1909. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); tan cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in black and red on spine and front cover; viii,350pp, with frontispiece and five plates of illustrations by Armand Both. Decorative bookplate of Douglas R. Vining to front pastedown, some offsetting to cloth at spine (likely from binders glue), else a fresh, Near Fine copy, lacking the rare dustjacket. Attractive copy of the author's first novel published in the United States, and the only novel to feature recurring character Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge. MCILVAINE A7b.
Sinopsis
Love Among the Chickens is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published as a book in the U.K. in June 1906 by George Newnes, London, and in the U.S. by Circle Publishing, New York on May 11, 1909, having earlier appeared there as a serial in Circle magazine between September 1908 and March 1909. A substantially rewritten version was published in May 1921 by Herbert Jenkins.
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- Librería
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 53734
- Título
- Love Among the Chickens: A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm
- Autor
- WODEHOUSE, P.G. (novel); BOTH, Armand (illustrations)
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First American Edition
- Editorial
- The Circle Publishing Company
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1909
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Modern Fiction;
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Lorne Bair Rare Books
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