The Butler Did It
Author: Pelham Grenville "P G" Wodehouse (1881-1975)
Year: 1957
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Place: New York
Description:
214 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's black cloth with green spine with silver lettering on spine; front board with embossed facsimile signature of Wodehouse in silver. Jacket design by Dick Dodge. 7,500 copies published. (APG, Wodehouse:092b) First American edition.
The Butler Did it is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, published in the United States on January 28, 1957 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, first published in the United Kingdom on 18 January 1957 by Herbert Jenkins, London as Something Fishy. The plot concerns a tontine formed by a group of wealthy men weeks before the 1929 stock market crash, and a butler named Keggs who, having overheard the planning of the scheme, years later decides to try to make money out of his knowledge. The novel features hero Bill Hollister and anti-hero Roscoe Bunyun, who are the sons of the men who set up the tontine. The last one to become married will receive one million dollars from the tontine. Keggs, the former butler to Bunyun's father, informs Roscoe of the secret tontine. Keggs is now retired and wealthy. He supports his impoverished former employer, the genial and often confused Lord Uffenham, and Uffenham's daughter Jane. A chance meeting between Bill and Jane turns to romance, Keggs' plan is undone by Roscoe, and Lord Uffenham and Keggs plot to save the day for Bill and Jane. The Butler Did it also features Percy Pilbeam, the unscrupulous head of the Argus Detective Agency, who first appeared in Bill the Conqueror (1924) and was in several other Wodehouse books, including a visit to Blandings Castle in Summer Lightning (1929).
Condition:
Points lightly rubbed, spine ends lightly darkened, offset darkening to front end papers. Jacket spine sunned, spine ends lightly chipped, light edge wear. A very good copy in like jacket.
Year: 1957
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Place: New York
Description:
214 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's black cloth with green spine with silver lettering on spine; front board with embossed facsimile signature of Wodehouse in silver. Jacket design by Dick Dodge. 7,500 copies published. (APG, Wodehouse:092b) First American edition.
The Butler Did it is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, published in the United States on January 28, 1957 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, first published in the United Kingdom on 18 January 1957 by Herbert Jenkins, London as Something Fishy. The plot concerns a tontine formed by a group of wealthy men weeks before the 1929 stock market crash, and a butler named Keggs who, having overheard the planning of the scheme, years later decides to try to make money out of his knowledge. The novel features hero Bill Hollister and anti-hero Roscoe Bunyun, who are the sons of the men who set up the tontine. The last one to become married will receive one million dollars from the tontine. Keggs, the former butler to Bunyun's father, informs Roscoe of the secret tontine. Keggs is now retired and wealthy. He supports his impoverished former employer, the genial and often confused Lord Uffenham, and Uffenham's daughter Jane. A chance meeting between Bill and Jane turns to romance, Keggs' plan is undone by Roscoe, and Lord Uffenham and Keggs plot to save the day for Bill and Jane. The Butler Did it also features Percy Pilbeam, the unscrupulous head of the Argus Detective Agency, who first appeared in Bill the Conqueror (1924) and was in several other Wodehouse books, including a visit to Blandings Castle in Summer Lightning (1929).
Condition:
Points lightly rubbed, spine ends lightly darkened, offset darkening to front end papers. Jacket spine sunned, spine ends lightly chipped, light edge wear. A very good copy in like jacket.
