{"title":"P.G. Wodehouse","description":"\u003ch1\u003eA CELEBRATION OF HIS LIFE \u0026amp; WORK\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe are delighted to present our latest catalogue, \u003ci\u003eP.G. Wodehouse: The Graeme W.I. Davidson Collection\u003c\/i\u003e. Bringing together remarkable manuscripts and the greater part of Wodehouse’s published work, the collection spans the entirety of his lengthy career, from early school novels such as \u003ci\u003eThe Pothunters\u003c\/i\u003e to his final, unfinished novel, \u003ci\u003eSunset at Blandings\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 24px 0;\"\u003e\n  \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/library.sotherans.co.uk\/catalogues\/wodehouse.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"\n      display: inline-block;\n      padding: 14px 28px;\n      border: 1px solid #fff;\n      border-radius: 999px;\n      background-color: transparent;\n      color: #fff;\n      font-family: inherit;\n      font-size: 14px;\n      font-weight: 300;\n      line-height: 1.4;\n      letter-spacing: 0.12em;\n      text-align: center;\n      text-decoration: none;\n      text-transform: uppercase;\n    \"\u003e\n    Browse the catalogue as a PDF\n  \u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n","products":[{"product_id":"wodehouse-p-g-aunts-arent-gentlemen","title":"WODEHOUSE, P.G. Aunts Aren't Gentlemen.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eThe Final Jeeves and Wooster Novel\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e Aunts Aren't Gentlemen. \u003ci\u003eLondon: Barrie \u0026amp; Jenkins.\u003c\/i\u003e 1974.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine, in the illustrated dust-jacked by Osbert Lancaster with printed price £2.25 to front flap; pp. 176; blue ink stain to verso of rear panel of jacket, a few light spots to edges of textblock; near fine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, first printing of the last Jeeves and Wooster novel.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book was first published in the UK in October 1974, followed by the US edition on 14 April 1975 under the alternative title The Cat-nappers. It is the final novel to feature the hapless Bertie Wooster and his ever resourceful valet, Jeeves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcllvaine A97a.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2126815\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64900333764985,"sku":"2126815","price":75.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2126815.jpg?v=1792134896"},{"product_id":"wodehouse-p-g-draft-manuscript-of-chapter-one-chapter-three-in-the-published-novel-of-bachelor-s-anonymous","title":"WODEHOUSE, P.G. Draft manuscript of ‘Chapter One’ (Chapter Three in the published novel) of Bachelor’s Anonymous .","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eTo Be Published on Wodehouse’s Ninety-Third Birthday\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e Draft manuscript of ‘Chapter One’ (Chapter Three in the published novel) of \u003ci\u003eBachelor’s Anonymous\u003ci\u003e. [\u003ci\u003eRemsenburg\u003c\/i\u003e.] August 1972.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHoused in a modern card folder; manuscript on paper, ff. [4] (280 mm x 210 mm) featuring an early draft of part of \u003ci\u003eBachelor’s Anonymous\u003c\/i\u003e, in black ink with additions and corrections in red ink, all dated ‘August 2, 72’ to upper right corners; first sheet signed by Wodehouse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA signed manuscript draft of an early chapter of \u003ci\u003eBachelor’s Anonymous\u003c\/i\u003e; the novel itself would be published on Wodehouse’s ninety-second birthday in 1973.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHeaded ‘Chapter One’ on three of the four leaves, this is in fact an early, rough draft of Chapter 3 of the published work (pp. 23–32 in the 1973 UK first edition), which may have been where the novel began at this stage of composition. Additional notes cross-reference later parts of the manuscript (not present), (‘See Aug 9’, ‘See Aug 12’ added in black and red respectively to the first leaf).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs usual with Wodehouse’s manuscripts, the left margins are used for notes and prompts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2126768\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64900334027129,"sku":"2126768","price":4000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2126768.jpg?v=1792134914"},{"product_id":"wodehouse-p-g-something-fishy","title":"WODEHOUSE, P.G. 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Publisher’s red cloth, lettered in black to spine, in the price-clipped, illustrated dust-jacket illustrated by Sax; pp. 199, [1 (blank)]; jacket repriced with purple stamp to front flap at ‘6\/6d’, a little wear to edges of jacket, but illustration remains bright, light spotting to edges of textblock; very good; small bookseller’s ticket (Foyles, Charing Cross Road) to front pastedown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, first printing, published in the US ten days later as \u003ci\u003eThe Butler Did It.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe story centres on a tontine established by a group of wealthy American financiers shortly before the 1929 Wall Street Crash. Years later, the butler of these men, who overheard all their scheming, attempts to help his previous impoverished employer and his niece Jane.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcllvaine A80a.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2126609\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64900334092665,"sku":"2126609","price":75.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2126609.jpg?v=1792134925"},{"product_id":"wodehouse-p-g-tales-of-st-austin-s","title":"WODEHOUSE, P.G. Tales of St. Austin’s.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eA St Austin's Shocker\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e Tales of St. Austin’s. \u003ci\u003eLondon: Adam \u0026amp; Charles Black\u003c\/i\u003e. 1903.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Publisher’s red pictorial cloth and titles in gold to upper board and spine; pp. 281, [1], [2 (advertisements)]; 12 black-and-white plates by T.M. Whitwell, R. Noel Pocock and E.F. Skinner; occasional foxing and offsetting to endpapers and browning to textblock; hinges fragile but holding, otherwise a very good copy; neat gift inscription ‘Reginald C. Bateman | From E.K.T. | \u0026amp; | A.E.T. | September 9th 1916’ to front free endpaper and small bookseller’s ticket of ‘J.N. Curwood … Bromley, Kent’ to rear pastedown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, first printing of the third novel in Wodehouse’s school series.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis first printing lacks closing quotation marks on the title-page after \u003ci\u003eThe Pothunters\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Prefect’s Uncle\u003c\/i\u003e, and is also printed without a period in ‘St. Austin’s’. The collection brings together twelve short stories and four essays set at the fictional St Austin’s School, chronicling the pupils’ boyish escapades and continuing the world and characters introduced in \u003ci\u003eThe Pothunters\u003c\/i\u003e (1902), Wodehouse’s first published novel. Most of these stories had originally appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Captain\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003ePublic School Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, where Wodehouse had established St Austin’s as a setting for his early school fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe sole exception is ‘A Shocking Affair’, published here for the first time.\u003c\/strong\u003e Narrated by Frederick Wackerbath Bradshaw, it recounts his elaborate attempt to evade a Thucydides examination by locking himself in the Science Museum and electrifying the door. The plates by Thomas Montague Radclyffe Whitwell (1868–1928), R. 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Typescript, held together with a single brass fastener at upper left corner, housed in a custom red cloth clamshell box, gilt black lettering-piece to spine, foot of spine lettered directly in gilt; ff. ‘214’ (\u003ci\u003ei.e.\u003c\/i\u003e 235); text to rectos only (though several ff. with earlier material to versos, out of sequence), pagination inconsistent, with many manuscript amendments and errors throughout; measuring 270 x 210 mm (save for ff. ‘59–82’, measuring 253 x 200 mm); first title-page a touch soiled and creased, slight edge wear, else clean and well preserved; extensive authorial revisions, corrections, additions, and deletions throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOriginal typescript, with substantial manuscript revisions throughout, of the complete rough draft of the novel Wodehouse believed to be his best, from the library of James H. Heineman.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuick Service\u003c\/i\u003e was published on 4 October 1940 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and on 27 December 1940 by Doubleday, Doran, New York, having previously been serialised in the US in \u003ci\u003eThe Saturday Evening Post\u003c\/i\u003e between 4 May and 22 June 1940. The novel follows the ‘Ham King’, American meat-packing tycoon James Duff, in his quest to reacquire a portrait of his ex-fiancée, Beatrice Chavender, who complains to him after she consumes an unpleasant mouthful of ham produced by the company of which he is managing director.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWodehouse, according to Frances Donaldson, thought \u003ci\u003eQuick Service\u003c\/i\u003e to be his best book, a statement supported by a 1966 letter to Charles A. Goodrum in which he describes the novel as ‘one of the ones of mine I think I like best’. The title-page of this original typescript, signed by Wodehouse in ink, contains his pencilled note at the top: ‘this is the rough draft of the story. It lacks certain bits written into the fair copy, but it will serve as a foundation to work on if the fair copy gets lost. PGW’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the lower portion of the page, ‘Chapters 1 to 3’ (typed) is crossed through, with ‘PART ONE’, dated ‘Aug 9–1939’, pencilled in its place, along with the additional authorial note: ‘This – up to [?] moat scene – should be at least 100 pages.’ Densely annotated in pencil throughout, with notes, emendations, and deletions on most pages,  a significant number of the versos contain additional typescript material, many with corrections, not used in the published novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eProvenance:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1.        Maggs Bros, \u003ci\u003eAutograph Letters and Historical Documents\u003c\/i\u003e (catalogue 698 (1940), no. 1035) and \u003ci\u003eAutograph Letters and Historical Documents\u003c\/i\u003e (catalogue 759 (1946), no. 676).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2.        From the estate of James H. Heineman. His sale, Sotheby’s (26 June 1998), lot 91 (not sold).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2126351\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64900334354809,"sku":"2126351","price":25000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2126351.jpg?v=1792134954"},{"product_id":"wodehouse-p-g-annotated-typescript-of-uncle-dynamite","title":"WODEHOUSE, P.G. 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Priestley’ by Frank Conniff pasted to f. 64v (\u003ci\u003esee below\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA late typescript draft, with Wodehouse’s final manuscript corrections, of the second Uncle Fred novel, written in Europe during the Second World War.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUncle Fred, having first appeared in the short story ‘Uncle Fred Flits By’ (1935) and the novel \u003ci\u003eUncle Fred in the Springtime\u003c\/i\u003e (1939), returns here under the guise of Major Brabazon-Plank to rescue his nephew from a fall from grace, after the latter accidentally destroys two precious works of art from his future father-in-law’s collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWodehouse completed \u003ci\u003eUncle Dynamite\u003c\/i\u003e while moving around France in the bitter winter of 1944–45. In September 1943 the Germans had allowed him to move with his wife Ethel to Paris; on 20 November 1944, following the liberation of Paris, he was arrested by the French on suspicion of collaboration, although no charges were presented. He was soon released on medical grounds but remained detained in hospital until 15 January 1945.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaving secured American visas the previous year, the Wodehouses sailed to New York in April 1947, taking up residence at the Adams Hotel, 2 East 86th Street, where they remained until 1948. It is there that Wodehouse gave his final touches to \u003ci\u003eUncle Dynamite\u003c\/i\u003e, which was finally published in the United Kingdom on 22 October 1948 by Herbert Jenkins, London and in the United States on 29 November 1948 by Didier \u0026amp; Co., New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe corrections in our draft include the replacement of words with synonyms, the deletion of sentences, and the insertion of new ones. All appear in the final printed version, with only very occasional, minor differences in punctuation. \u003cstrong\u003eThis suggests that the draft may have been the last typescript of the novel to be corrected in Wodehouse’s own hand.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the verso of the final leaf of part I, Wodehouse has pasted a clipping of Frank Conniff’s article ‘P.G. Wodehouse vs. J.B. Priestley’, published in his ‘East Side, West Side’ column in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Journal-American\u003c\/i\u003e. In it, Wodehouse defended New York as a ‘brisk and stimulating city’: ‘New York’s a grand town … Priestley is just trying to be as significant as usual if he says anything different’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2126350\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64900334420345,"sku":"2126350","price":25000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2126350a.jpg?v=1792134972"},{"product_id":"wodehouse-p-g-manuscript-notes-for-a-pelican-at-blandings","title":"WODEHOUSE, P.G. Manuscript notes for A Pelican at Blandings .","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003e‘I May Be an Ass, but I Am Not a Silly Ass’\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e Manuscript notes for \u003ci\u003eA Pelican at Blandings\u003ci\u003e. [\u003ci\u003eRemsenburg\u003c\/i\u003e. December 1966–March 1968].\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[\u003ci\u003ewith\u003c\/i\u003e:]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e Nine typed and autograph letters signed, with a carbon copy of a letter from James B. Meriwether to Wodehouse. \u003ci\u003eRemsenburg\u003c\/i\u003e. 9 November 1952–27 October 1965.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4to. Unbound, in a custom cream cloth chemise with ribbon pull in a quarter tan morocco slipcase with cream cloth sides, spine lettered in gilt; ff. 104 (90 of which 280 x 215 mm and 14 of which 300 x 230 mm), written chiefly to rectos in red, blue, and black ink, one leaf (3 January 1968) partially typed and one blank, most leaves dated; mild toning, creasing, and edgewear, occasional residual paperclip rust and impressions, several leaves punctured to upper left corner from previous binding, but overall clean and well preserved; offered with nine original letters from Wodehouse, six to James Meriwether, one to Margaret Meriwether, two to Wodehouse collector Marshall Bean, and a carbon copy of a letter from James Meriwether (\u003ci\u003esee below\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA remarkable batch of Wodehouse’s manuscript notes for \u003ci\u003eA Pelican at Blandings\u003c\/i\u003e, the tenth Blandings novel; offered with nine original Wodehouse letters.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Pelican at Blandings\u003c\/i\u003e, the tenth Blandings Castle novel, was published when Wodehouse was eighty-eight years old, by Barrie and Jenkins in London (September 1969) and in the US by Simon \u0026amp; Schuster (February 1970).  This substantial cache of manuscript notes for the novel is laid out in Wodehouse’s characteristic hand-ruled compartments, recording the author’s developing ideas for characters, scenes, and plotlines, with later marginal notes and gradings (‘good’ and, less frequently, ‘v. good’). The notes (the first leaf, dated ‘Dec 6 – 1966’, headed ‘Blandings Novel’), often beginning with the characteristic exhortation to ‘Try this’, teem with the author’s seemingly undiminished joy in invention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe manuscript is accompanied ten items of correspondence (9 original, one carbon copy) comprising the following\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1.        \u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e Typed letter signed to Margaret W. Meriwether, 1000 Park Avenue. \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e. 9 November 1952.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2.        \u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e Typed letter signed to James B. Meriwether, with typed envelope. \u003ci\u003eRemsenburg\u003c\/i\u003e. 7 May 1960.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3.        \u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e Typed letter signed to James B. Meriwether, with typed envelope. \u003ci\u003eRemsenburg\u003c\/i\u003e. 9 June 1960.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4.        \u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e Typed letter signed to James B. Meriwether. \u003ci\u003eRemsenburg\u003c\/i\u003e. 11 July 1960.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5.      \u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e Typed letter signed to James B. Meriwether, with typed envelope and autograph redirection address. \u003ci\u003eRemsenburg\u003c\/i\u003e. 9 August 1960.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6.        \u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e Typed letter signed to James B. Meriwether. \u003ci\u003eRemsenburg\u003c\/i\u003e. 11 April 1961.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7.        \u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e Autograph letter signed to Marshall Bean. \u003ci\u003eRemsenburg\u003c\/i\u003e. 15 November 1964.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith a signed autograph note dated 15 November 1964, a quotation from ‘a short story which I have just written’, instead of ‘a [requested] sketch’, mentioned in the ALS. \u003cstrong\u003eThe unidentified quotation, beginning ‘The cross every motion picture magnate has to bear is that everyone he meets acts at him in the hope of getting on the pay roll’ may be based upon material related to the novel \u003ci\u003eFrozen Assets\u003c\/i\u003e, published earlier the same year and featuring a motion picture magnate.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe following three letters tell a short, pleasingly Wodehousian, story:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8.         \u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e Autograph letter signed to Marshall Bean. \u003ci\u003eRemsenburg\u003c\/i\u003e. 3 May 1965.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this letter, Wodehouse expresses sympathy for Mr Bean’s poor health, happily agreeing to send a signed photograph, as well as the manuscript of a recent short story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9.         \u003cstrong\u003eMERIWETHER, James B.\u003c\/strong\u003e Carbon copy of typed letter to P.G. Wodehouse. 14 October 1965.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the letter, Meriwether explains that he has returned a copy of a Kenneth Grahame volume, bought at auction along with a number of signed Wodehouse volumes. Meriwether explains:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘[I] purchased last spring form the excellent American dealer Robert Black a substantial portion of a genuine Wodehouse typescript, to wit: about the first third of The Brinksmanship of Galahad. Pretty pleased I was, for it is a lovely MS., besmeared with the Wodehouse sweat hot from the Wodehouse brow […], liberally revised and amended by the Wodehouse pencil, and all just the thing to gladden the heart of one of your confirmed admirers. With the typescript, however, were several letters and an inscribed photograph, all making it pretty clear that you had given the lot to one of our other admirers, who had then cashed in, with the help of Mr. Black. So, although I was happy to see the picture of you looking authorial (I note with some unesse [sic], that the cat you are holding looks even more critical) and considered keeping it, I decided that the letters and photograph should return to you to dispose of as you saw fit. They are enclosed here – burn them or make coals of fire of them.’\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e10.      WODEHOUSE, P.G. Typed letter signed to James B. Meriwether. \u003ci\u003eRemsenburg.\u003c\/i\u003e 27 October 1965.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe author replies\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDear Mr Meriwether.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Kenneth Grahame book arrived safely. Many thanks. I am very glad to have it, as I imagine it is impossible to buy now. I must have bought this copy at least seventy years ago!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe history of those two photographs and the MS is as follows. This blighter Marshall Bean wrote me a pathetic letter saying that he was dying of cancer and that the only thing that could comfort him would be a bit of manuscript and a photograph of me. Naturally I couldn’t refuse a man in such straits, and I still don’t know if he is dying of cancer, but the fact that he has sold the loot makes me very doubtful, especially as he wrote again, this time asking if I would sign my name at the bottom of a blank sheet of paper and send it to him! Well, as the fellow said in the play, I may be an ass, but I am not a silly ass. This time I ignored him, so he will not be able to write ‘Pay Marshall Bean ten thousand dollars’ over my signature. What I feel the world needs is fewer and better Marshall Beans.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCongratulations on being back home. You must be pleased.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYours sincerely\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eP.G. Wodehouse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eProvenance\u003c\/i\u003e: from the estate of the noted William Faulkner scholar and Wodehouse collector, Professor James B Meriwether, who latterly held the McClintock Chair in Southern Letters at the University of South Carolina; Hermitage Auctions, 13 September 2018.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2126349\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64900334846329,"sku":"2126349","price":30000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2126349.jpg?v=1792134995"},{"product_id":"wodehouse-p-g-complete-typescript-draft-of-do-butlers-burgle-banks","title":"WODEHOUSE, P.G. Complete typescript draft of Do Butlers Burgle Banks ?","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eRethinking, Reorganising, and Revising\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e Complete typescript draft of \u003ci\u003eDo Butlers Burgle Banks\u003ci\u003e? [\u003ci\u003eRemsenburg?\u003c\/i\u003e 1967–1968].\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[\u003ci\u003eoffered with\u003c\/i\u003e:]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e  Early manuscript and corrected typescript draft of Chapters 9 and 10 of \u003ci\u003eDo Butlers Burgle Banks?\u003c\/i\u003e [\u003ci\u003eRemsenburg?\u003c\/i\u003e 1968.]  £50,000\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eComplete typescript\u003c\/i\u003e: 4to. Original typescript in four parts, each secured with a brass fastener to upper corner, ff. 240 (280 x 215 mm), primarily typed to rectos, 18 ff. with type to verso, housed in a card chemise inside a black cloth clamshell box, blue gilt morocco lettering-piece to spine, lettered directly in gilt at foot; A: ff. ‘[1], 1–40’ (but 67 ff.); B: ff.  ‘41–81’ (82, 114–139 unfastened; 44 ff.); C: ff.  ‘82–139’ (68 ff.), D: ff. ‘140–193’ (61 ff.); pagination inconsistent, with many manuscript amendments, additions, and errors throughout; some creasing and edgewear, but clean and well preserved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eChapters 9 and 10\u003c\/i\u003e: 4to. Ff. 123 (280 x 215 mm), grouped in six parts (\u003ci\u003esee below\u003c\/i\u003e) and housed in a card file folder; minor edgewear, toning and rust offset from paperclips, but generally clean and well-preserved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA complete typescript of this late Wodehouse novel, with substantial manuscript revisions by the author throughout; accompanied by over one hundred and twenty leaves comprising early manuscript and typescript drafts, with extensive corrections and revisions, for Chapters 9 and 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDo Butlers Burgle Banks?\u003c\/i\u003e was first published in the US on 5 August 1968 by Simon \u0026amp; Schuster, Inc., New York, and in the UK on 19 September 1968 by Barrie \u0026amp; Jenkins, London. Francis Donaldson describes this late work, written when the author was eighty-seven, as possessing ‘the extreme sensibility and the sure humorous touch of [its] most inspired predecessors.’ The story, in which a young man inherits an insolvent bank, and his subsequent attempts to disguise the truth with the help of a crooked butler, is vintage Wodehouse. This complete typescript, replete with extensive authorial revisions and annotations in pencil, blue and red ink, includes on the title page, in blue pencil, the alternative title, \u003ci\u003eHats Off to Horace\u003c\/i\u003e, beneath the chosen one (typed).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe drafts for Chapters 9 and 10 are in six parts, as follows:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA. Two leaves of loose manuscript in pencil and blue ink to rectos only. Upper portion of first leaf headed ‘Horace phoning scene’ in pencil (number ‘3’, in blue ink, circled in the margin), followed by a rough sketch of dialogue. Lower third of page, beneath horizontal pencilled line, marked ‘start’ with a circled ‘1’ in the margin, and continuing onto second sheet (‘2’ in the margin) may be the first manuscript draft, with corrections and revisions, of the opening of Chapter 9, part 3 (pp. 125–126 in the UK first edition).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eB. Four manuscript leaves, text in pencil and blue ink to rectos and one verso, secured with copper paper clip; laid out in the author’s characteristic hand-ruled compartments, recording ideas and suggestions for Chapter 9, along with notes and gradings to left margins (the first sheet second compartment, for example, reads ‘v. Good | work in this’).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eC. Five leaves of manuscript in blue ink and pencil to rectos and one verso, secured with tarnished, rusty paperclip; hand-ruled compartments with left marginal notes; first page headed in pencil ‘Notes for Mike–Miss Bond scene’; notes and suggestions for Chapter 10.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eD. 25 leaves, 24 of which 280 x 215 mm, secured with brass fastener to left corner, with 1 smaller loose leaf (230 x 150 mm); first three leaves typescript, the remainder in manuscript (pencil) predominantly to rectos, one typescript leaf and three manuscript leaves also to versos. Typescript pages and first manuscript page are headed ‘Act Two’, possibly related to ‘a note of Guy’s [Guy Bolton], [stating the novel] was based on a play of his’ (Donaldson). Leaves variously dated May–July 1967 (fastened out of order).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eE. 27 leaves (280 x 215 mm, four sheets 253 x 200 mm), to rectos only, 22 in manuscript (pencil), 6 of typescript with deletions and amendments in pencil; secured with a brass fastener to upper corner. Leaves variously dated between May and July 1967 (fastened roughly in order), again referring to ‘Acts’ (Two and Three) rather than chapters; many of the manuscript pages hand-ruled in compartments with, as usual, comments in left margin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eF. 62 leaves, 280 x 215 mm secured with brass fastener to upper left corner, 1 additional loose sheet 200 x 120 mm, 55 leaves, including loose sheet, of discursive plotting and sequencing suggestions in manuscript (the author’s characteristic ‘try this’ is a common exhortation), predominantly in blue ink, with occasional pencil and red ink emendations, many leaves divided into hand-ruled compartments with marginal annotations; 7 typescript leaves, 4 of an early typed draft of Chapter 9 – the first page headed CHAPTER EIGHT (corrected to CHAPTER NINE in manuscript) – with extensive manuscript corrections and revisions throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eProvenance\u003c\/i\u003e: The complete draft comes from the collection of prolific Wodehouse collector Charles Gould, subsequently in the possession of William Toplis, sold in \u003ci\u003eP.G. Wodehouse Collection\u003c\/i\u003e (5 July 2020), lot 24.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2126348\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64900335075705,"sku":"2126348","price":50000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2126348.jpg?v=1792135018"},{"product_id":"wodehouse-p-g-annotated-typescript-draft-of-bill-the-conqueror","title":"WODEHOUSE, P.G. Annotated typescript draft of Bill the Conqueror .","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003ePresented to Wodehouse's Collaborator\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e Annotated typescript draft of \u003ci\u003eBill the Conqueror\u003ci\u003e. [\u003ci\u003eS.l.\u003c\/i\u003e] 1924.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4to. Twentieth-century blue buckram, spine lettered in gilt, housed in a black morocco-backed clamshell box with blue cloth sides by the Chelsea Bindery, spine lettered directly in gilt; carbon typescript, printed in blue and black to rectos only (occasionally overrunning onto versos), ff. [1 (title)], ‘355’ (\u003ci\u003ei.e.\u003c\/i\u003e 365); buckram spine slightly toned, slight wear to extremities; short closed marginal tear to head of title, numerous tears without loss, small holes to upper left corners where originally fastened; otherwise bright and clean throughout; multiple pencilled revisions to pagination throughout, extensive manuscript revisions, corrections, and deletions by Wodehouse in pencil, 1924 presentation inscription from Wodehouse to Jerome Kern ‘to Jerry, from Plum’ and 1938 gift inscription from Kern to Gus Kahn to title (\u003ci\u003esee below\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWodehouse’s complete working typescript for \u003ci\u003eBill the Conqueror\u003c\/i\u003e, with extensive authorial revisions, corrections, and deletions in pencil throughout; a remarkable double association copy, warmly inscribed by Wodehouse to his friend and collaborator, the composer Jerome Kern, in 1924, with a 1938 inscription from Kern to lyricist Gus Kahn.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen, in early 1906, Wodehouse was hired by celebrated playwright and actor-manager Seymour Hicks to be resident lyricist at the Aldwych Theatre, his first assignment was as lyricist for a production of Cosmo Hamilton’s \u003ci\u003eThe Beauty of Bath\u003c\/i\u003e. His musical collaborator for the project was the young Jerome Kern (1885–1945), writer of, amongst others, ‘Ol’ Man River’, ‘Smoke Gets in Your Eyes’, and ‘The Way You Look Tonight’. ‘Here, I thought’, Wodehouse later wrote of their first meeting, ‘was a young man supremely confident of himself – the kind of person who inspires people to seek him out when a job must be done.’ The respect and admiration was returned, Kern enamoured with Wodehouse’s ability to ‘accurately remember any tune he’d heard and who, less demanding than many lyricists, preferred to fit the words to music already composed.’ (ibid).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pair would collaborate on multiple occasions over the following two decades, including a fertile period working with British-American librettist Guy Bolton (1884–1979) on the series known as the ‘Princess’ musicals including \u003ci\u003eMiss Springtime\u003c\/i\u003e (1916), \u003ci\u003eHave a Heart\u003c\/i\u003e (New York, 1917), \u003ci\u003eOh, Boy!\u003c\/i\u003e (New York, 1917), \u003ci\u003eLeave It to Jane\u003c\/i\u003e (New York, 1917), and \u003ci\u003eOh, Lady! Lady!!\u003c\/i\u003e (New York, 1918). The last of these partially inspired the plot of Wodehouse’s 1927 \u003ci\u003eThe Small Bachelor\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe seventh and final Princess show, \u003ci\u003eSitting Pretty\u003c\/i\u003e (1924), the pair’s final collaboration, coincided with the writing of \u003ci\u003eBill the Conqueror\u003c\/i\u003e, the author’s presentation of this typescript to Kern – then at the height of his powers and popularity – marking the end of their fruitful partnership. In his lyrics for \u003ci\u003eSitting Pretty\u003c\/i\u003e, Wodehouse incorporated several themes and even direct quotations from \u003ci\u003eBill the Conqueror\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWodehouse’s presentation to Kern, in the right margin of the title-page, ‘To Jerry | from | Plum | P.G. Wodehouse 1924’, is followed by a later gift inscription from Kern to fellow Broadway legend, lyricist Gus Kahn: ‘And after fourteen years’ enjoyment Jerry gives it with his affectionate regards to that grand old Wodehouse fan Gus Kahn. June 1938’.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKahn had written the lyrics for ‘Dream a Little Dream of Me’, ‘My Baby Just Cares for Me’, ‘Makin’ Whoopee’, and ‘It Had to Be You’. The same title-page also includes Wodehouse’s manuscript instructions. The ‘Note to typist’, top left, requests: ‘Two carbon copies, please will you bind them. Note: I have changed the names ‘Ernest’ and ‘Dominic’ to ‘George’ and ‘Roderick’. If I have omitted to make the alteration in any place, will you do it. PGW’. As indicated, the two names are changed in manuscript throughout the text. To the lower left is the instruction to ‘Bind Chapters 1–4 in one cover, apart from Chapters 5–11’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is unclear if Wodehouse himself had this complete, extensively revised, typescript bound for presentation to Kern, or whether Kern did so later for Kahn, but given the care with which the complete text has been presented, and the many amendments and insertions to foliation throughout, as well as the significance of the original recipient, the former seems more likely. Most of the manuscript amendments were incorporated into the published text of the novel, but the many crossed through, perfectly legible, passages, offer a unique insight into the composition of the novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a 14 November 1923 letter to Leonora Wodehouse (\u003ci\u003enée\u003c\/i\u003e Rowley) his adopted daughter, the author excitedly revealed his new working methods, developed while writing Bill:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘Did Mummie tell you I was working on the new novel in a new way, - viz. making a very elaborate scenario, so that when the time came to write the story it would be more like copying out and revising than actual composition. It is panning out splendidly, but is, of course, the dickens of a Sweat because I can’t persuade myself that I am really accomplishing any actual work besides just mapping the story out. I have reached about half-way now, and it has taken 30 pages, – each containing 600 words as they are typed close like this letter. That is to say, I have written 18,000 words of scenario, the equivalent of about three short stories! I must say I think, when it is all finished, I shall be surprised at the speed at which I shall be able to polish off the story.’\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt was a method, preceding the stage of composition represented by this typescript, that Wodehouse continued to use until the end of his writing life. \u003ci\u003eBill the Conqueror\u003c\/i\u003e (subtitled \u003ci\u003eHis Invasion of England in the Springtime\u003c\/i\u003e) was published in the UK on 13 November 1924, the US edition following in 1925, having previously been serialised in \u003ci\u003eThe Saturday Evening Post\u003c\/i\u003e from 24 May to 12 July 1924.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDedicated to Wodehouse’s parents, it was one of the author’s own favourites among his works: ‘I sent the first 70,000 words of \u003ci\u003eBill the Conqueror\u003c\/i\u003e off to the typist (\u003ci\u003ela sténographie\u003c\/i\u003e) yesterday, he wrote to Leonora (February 4 1924), ‘and believe me or believe me not, it’s good. I’m taking a day off today and tomorrow to plunge into the remaining 25,000, which ought to be pie. This is certainly one swell story, as good as the old man has ever done […] I’ve never worked so well on a novel before. I must have done over 50,000 words in a month.’ The novel ‘sold 10,000 copies on the day of publication. Hot stuff’ (letter to William Townend, 17 November 1924).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2126346\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64900335305081,"sku":"2126346","price":60000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2126346.jpg?v=1792135035"},{"product_id":"wodehouse-p-g-annotated-typescript-draft-of-service-with-a-smile","title":"WODEHOUSE, P.G. Annotated typescript draft of Service with a Smile .","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003e‘Off to the Races Without Further Comment’\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e Annotated typescript draft of \u003ci\u003eService with a Smile\u003ci\u003e. [\u003ci\u003eRemsenburg\u003c\/i\u003e. May–December 1960].\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[\u003ci\u003ewith\u003c\/i\u003e:]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSCHWED, Peter.\u003c\/strong\u003e Carbon copies of two letters addressed to P.G. Wodehouse in Remsenburg, with a part-printed Simon and Schuster editorial department report. \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e. February 1961.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWodehouse\u003c\/i\u003e: 4to. Twentieth-century black morocco, raised bands, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers; carbon typescript (280 x 220 mm, save for 6 ff. measuring 200 x 125 mm) pasted to rectos of semi-transparent archival paper mounted on card stubs, ff. 63 (of which ff. 51 in manuscript); [1 (title)], ‘230’ (\u003ci\u003ei.e.\u003c\/i\u003e 249); bound without f. 164 (with old pencilled note ‘no folio 164’ to f. 63v; a few extra leaves pasted to versos (predominantly earlier drafts of the respective text to rectos), ff. 36 and 38 misbound; corrections, revisions, deletions, and annotations in pencil and ink throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSchwed\u003c\/i\u003e: Folio; housed in a modern card folder; 3 ff., text to rectos only; Simon and Schuster report printed on yellow paper with a few thumb-marks; otherwise very well preserved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eComplete typescript of the eighth Blandings novel, with extensive manuscript emendations throughout, preceded by over sixty pages of Wodehouse’s pencilled working notes and accompanied by letters and an editorial report from the author’s editor at Simon \u0026amp; Schuster, Peter Schwed.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eService with a Smile\u003c\/i\u003e, the eighth full-length novel set at Blandings Castle, was published in the United States by Simon \u0026amp; Schuster on 15 October 1961, the British edition following from Herbert Jenkins on 17 August 1962. A condensed version had earlier appeared in two parts in the \u003ci\u003eToronto Star Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, on 26 August and 2 September 1961.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBound in preceding the typescript, Wodehouse’s preliminary notes (fifty-one pages in manuscript and twelve pages of typescript with manuscript corrections) are arranged in hand-ruled compartments. They document the author’s developing and abandoned ideas for characters, scenes, and plotlines and, along with the extensive revisions to the typescript itself, offer an unusually detailed record of the novel’s composition, from earliest conception to final stages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eParticularly striking are Wodehouse’s early plans to turn the novel into an unprecedented Blandings\/Jeeves and Wooster crossover work: the first entry, dated 27 May 1960, begins ‘Try it as a Jeeves story’.\u003c\/strong\u003e The idea came to a swift climax the following day, a proposed title, ‘VERY FOXY, JEEVES’, boldly announced in its own compartment, followed in the next by Wodehouse’s realisation that ‘The story isn’t right. It ought to be about American girl [Myra Schoonmaker] getting Bertie to do something connected with her love story’. From the next note, dated 30 May, onwards, there appear to be no further references to Bertie or Jeeves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition to the typescript and notes are carbon copies of two typed letters addressed to Wodehouse (‘Dear Plum’) from Peter Schwed, his editor at Simon \u0026amp; Schuster (Schwed’s name is given in only one, but the letters are clearly part of a running correspondence). The letters, respectively dated 6 and 14 February 1961, concern preparations for the novel’s publication and include much fulsome praise: ‘I loved every word of SERVICE WITH A SMILE including its title. It strikes me as one of your very best, Plum. […] Heartiest congratulations on still another brilliant and beautiful job. I’ve absolutely no critical comments or suggestions to make about this one’ (6 February); ‘The book is absolutely top-drawer Wodehouse’ (14 February).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso included is an original Simon \u0026amp; Schuster Editorial Department Report by Schwed, submitted by Wodehouse’s literary agent, Scott Meredith, who counted amongst his clients J.G. Ballard, Norman Mailer, and Philip K. Dick. Wodehouse was the first client of the Scott Meredith Literary Agency, co-founded by Scott and his brother, Sidney Meredith.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a pithy three-point assessment, initialled and dated 6 February 1961, Schwed notes:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘Nothing need be said about this, the new Wodehouse, except:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1.         It is an “Uncle Fred” novel -- he being the famous character immortalized in one of the best-known of classic Wodehouse stories, “Uncle Fred Flits By”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2.         As usual, it’s completely ready to go to press, and this time we don’t even have to tinker with a new title suggestion: the present one seems fine to me.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3.         It’s one of the very best Wodehouse novels I’ve ever read.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo off to the races without further comment. Add to the Fall 19k list.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eProvenance\u003c\/i\u003e: Sotheby’s, \u003ci\u003eFine Books and Manuscripts Including Americana. Property of the Estate of James H. 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He is engaged, however, to the writer Vera Upshaw, who insists that Jerry demand his inheritance – to be held in trust for another three years – from his uncle, Bill Scrope, the owner of a Gainsborough miniature of an ancestor, \u003ci\u003eThe Girl in Blue\u003c\/i\u003e. When the miniature is stolen, Bill promises the early release of Jerry’s inheritance if he can steal it back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn spite of Wodehouse’s enormous output, comparatively few drafts and scenarios for his works have survived.\u003c\/strong\u003e For each work, he generally produced ‘three complete drafts, all typed, revising each until the final, seemingly effortless comic text was achieved [...] Wodehouse would often work for days, weeks, or even months, on ideas for plots, only to discard them. He might spend considerable time on another set of ideas, then throw them out and return to the original inspiration. 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Publisher’s orange cloth, lettered in black to spine, illustrated dust-jacket by ‘Fenwick’ priced at 7\/6 to spine; pp. 284, [4 (publisher’s advertisements)]; wear to jacket with creasing and chipping, closed tear to front panel affecting illustration (\u003ci\u003ec.\u003c\/i\u003e 35 mm) and black flap hinge (\u003ci\u003ec.\u003c\/i\u003e 56 mm) both repaired with tape to verso, slight discolouring to cloth at spine ends, some spotting to edges of textblock and some offsetting to endpapers; very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, first printing of this collection, bringing together for the first time in a single volume this selection of stories featuring many of Wodehouse’s familiar characters such as Bingo Little, Mr Mulliner, and Ukridge.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese stories were initially published in the UK in \u003ci\u003eThe Strand\u003c\/i\u003e and in the US in \u003ci\u003eThe Saturday Evening Post\u003c\/i\u003e between 1937 and 1939. 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