About this title: Set in the French holiday resort of Roville, this novel tells the story of Jeff, a writer. Jeff falls in love with American Terry Trent - but he won't court her because he isn't rich and he thinks she is.
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon and Schuster, New York, NY
Date Published: 1959
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 216 pp. Original blue cloth covers w/ faint yellow spotting to covers. Light foxing to edges of text block and endpapers. Library stamp on front blank endpaper-no other markings. DJ moderately soiled. Contents nice. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon and Schuster, NY
Date Published: 1959
Description: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. First printing. Light wear to the boards at the corners and spine base and crown, else near fine in a very good dust jacket which also shows some light edge wear at the extremities. read more
Edition: First American Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York
Date Published: 1959
Description: Very Good jacket. Original blue decorated cloth. Slight edge wear, two small, faint spots on the edges, Very Good, in Very Good Dust Jacket with a few very small edge chips and tears. read more
Edition: First American Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York
Date Published: 1959
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo. 213pp. Or blue cloth in jacket. Light even toning to page edges, reaminder line on bottom edge. Jacket price clipped, several very small chips at jacket edges. read more
Edition: First American edition [McIlvaine A78b].
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon and Schuster, New York
Date Published: 1959
Description: Extremities of binding a bit rubbed, else a fine copy in very good dust jacket. Pictorial dust jacket has a few nicks and short creased tears (with two small tape mends on verso), else near fine. WODEHOUSE, P. G. FRENCH LEAVE. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Jenkins, London
Date Published: 1955
Description: 1st Edition; HBk; Very Good/ Dj Poor; 206pp; Red covers with black title on spine; Previous owners inscription; Protected dust jacket has 1/2 spine missing, Repaired in places on reverse, tatty but mostly there. read more
Edition: First
Binding: hardcover
Publisher: Barrie & Jenkins, London
Date Published: (1974)
ISBN-13:9780257658315ISBN:0257658319
Description: First edition thus with new preface by the author. Top corners a little bumped else fine in fine dustwrapper. A surprisingly scarce issue. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York
Date Published: 1959
Description: Very Good Plus in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book has scuffing to spine ends & corners, light soiling & minor shelfwear, dj has a few small chips at head & corners, scuffing (spine ends, spine & corners, soiling/rubbing, small tear with crease on top front panel & minor shelfwear. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Herbert Jenkins, London
Date Published: 1955
Description: Very Good in Good dust jacket. A very nice copy with a small bump on the spine. The jacket has minor edgewear with a 1" tear on bottom front and to 1/2" of spine missing. Dustjacket is in a Brodart mylar jacket protector. All dust jackets are in Mylar acid-free protectors.; 12mo. read more
Description: 1955, 1st edition. (Hardcover)...Very good in fine, facsimile dust jacket.......A previous owner has done a line drawing on the front free endpaper, marring what would otherwise be a very nice, tight, clean copy....(Humor, Humor) read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Herbert Jenkins
Date Published: 1955
Description: No Jacket the boards are a little worn and marked. a little cocked. foxing. library pocket and markings. purely a reading copy. [P.N. ] read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: NY: Simon & Schuster, 1948
Description: Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Later Printing. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 1959, light tip wear to jacket, book has slight minor edgewear, neat previous owner name on front freepage and small original bookstore retailer mini-sticker attached to front endpage, and excellent example of Wodehouse's unique style. read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Jenkins
Date Published: 1955
Description: Very Good The boards are a bit worn and sunned. A little foxing and one signature. Tightly bound. The jacket is a photocopy of the original issue. read more
Binding: HARD BACK BLUE
Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER, NEW YORK
Date Published: 1959
Description: GOOD TORN DJ. TORN DJ. 8X5.5. Small part of Dj is missing, water stain on DJ, bookplates on inside front cover, water stain on bottom corner of all pages _PAB_ read more
"I will use this "review" for all the P. G. Wodehouse I have read. I read them all so long ago and enjoyed them so much that I have given them all 5 stars. As I re-read them I will adjust the stars accordingly, if necessary, and add a proper review. When I first discovered P. G. Wodehouse I devoured every book I could find in the local library, throughout the eighties and early nineties. Alas, this means that I have read most of them and stumbling across one I have not read is a rare thing. I'm sure that through this great site I will joyfully find at least a few I have not read, and be able to track them down. My records only began in 1982, so I do not have a note of any I read before then. I'm sure I will enjoy re-reading them."
"Teresa 'Terry' Trent, American chicken farmer, on receiving a small windfall travels on holiday to the French resort of Roville to see how the other half live. The Marquis de Maufringneuse knows how the other half live, having once belonged to it, and now he is acting as an adventurer seeking rich American Women to introduce to his novelist son Jeff, the Comte d'Escrignon. On meeting Terry he assumes she to be rich enough to keep her father in law in the manner he used to be accustomed and so he is instrumental in their blossoming romance until he realises Terry has no money when he tries to break them up.
Confusion with the Marquis de Maufringneuse's ex-wife, two mineral water millionaires, a bent policeman, a drunken publisher and some stolen money all ensure that true love doesn't run a smooth course however we needn't worry too much, in Wodehouse's world only those whom truly deserve it get an unhappy ending.
A Wodehouse novel written without his usual formula, containing no references to members of the Drones or any of Wodehouse's stock characters; I should be praising it for its originality and as a jewel in the Wodehouse crown but if I'm honest what it is lacking is an English ass as the hero and a Country house setting, sorry."
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