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Toronto: Longmans, Green, 1940. 284 pp, + (4 pp), small 8vo (7 3/8" H), orange cloth with black lettering on spine. "In the heart of London's clubland there stands a tall and grimly forbidding edifice known to taxi-drivers and the elegant young men who frequent its precincts as the Drones Club. Yet its somewhat austere exterior belies the atmosphere of cheerful optimism and bonhomie that prevails within. For here it is that young gallants of Mayfair forgather for the pre-luncheon bracer and to touch lightly on the topics of the day. But all is not idle chatter that passes at this hour of the morning snifter - life in its sterner aspects often comes under review and is discussed with a candour that loosens tongues and encourages confidences. Then it is that the Eggs and Beans cluster round, and, with bated breath, listen while a Crumpet holds the floor with a dramatic narrative of domestic disturbances in the life of Bingo Little or, perhaps, the heart-throb story of Freddie…
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EGGS, BEANS AND CRUMPETS.
by Wodehouse, P.G. (Pelham Grenville Wodehouse.)
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Eggs, Beans and Crumpets
by WODEHOUSE, P.G. [Pelham Grenville] (1881-1975)
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New York, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1940. [Classic Humour] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[8] 312. Publisher's green cloth with blue titles and illustration to spine. Top edge yellow, others untrimmed. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket. Endpapers browned. Some spotting to cloth. Jacket sunned and rubbed to spine with rubbing and chips to edges. Very good. Thirteen previously uncollected short stories written over the last fifteen years.
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London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1940. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.284; [4], ads. Orange cloth blocked in black, with original dust-wrapper with illustration by Fenwick, priced at 7/6. Contents clean, book store stamp to free endpaper, cloth sunned to extremities and beneath chips, jacket with some edgewear, loss to crown. An inexpensive copy of the first printing. McIlvaine A62a (1).
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