WODEHOUSE, P.G. Angel Cake.

Barmy Finds Love in America

WODEHOUSE, P.G. Angel Cake. Garden City: Doubleday & Company. 1952.

8vo. Publisher’s tan cloth, lettered in green to spine, in unclipped first printing dust-jacket, illustrated by Earl Oliver Hurst; pp. 224; dust-jacket with light wear to head of spine and light toning to rear panel; textblock a little dusty; overall very good.

First US edition, first printing, often considered to be part of the expanded ‘Drones Club’ canon, featuring the hapless club member Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps.

The novel was published in the UK one month before the US edition, under the title Barmy in Wonderland. The book was dedicated to ‘Mr G.S.K.’, the playwright and theatre director George S. Kaufman (1889–1961) and was adapted from Kaufman’s play The Butter and Egg Man (1925).

Mcllvaine A72b.

SKU: 2126105