WODEHOUSE, P.G. Mike at Wrykyn.

Cricket Stories in the Land of Baseball

WODEHOUSE, P.G. Mike at Wrykyn. New York: The Meredith Press. 1953.

8vo. Publisher’s pale blue-green cloth, spine lettered in black, yellow endpapers, in the unclipped first-impression sage green dust-jacket illustrated by Charles Waterhouse; pp. x, 235, [1 (blank)]; light sunning to spine and edges of boards, a few nicks to extremities of jacket; otherwise near-fine; inscribed by Wodehouse ‘With best wishes | P.G. Wodehouse | Oct 4, 1968’ in blue ink to title.

First US edition, first printing of this school novel, reissuing under a new title the first part of Mike (1909), this copy inscribed by the author ‘with best wishes’.

Mike, a talented cricket player, here competes with his brother Bob for the sole vacancy on the Wrykyn cricket team. In this edition, Wodehouse provides a new introduction which ‘gives a brief explanation of the peculiar pastime of cricket (a game which Mr. Wodehouse admits he finds inferior to baseball!)’ (jacket).

The second half of Mike was reworked as Enter Psmith (1935) and, later, as Mike and Psmith (1953).

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