WODEHOUSE, P.G. Barmy in Wonderland.

Adapted from a Play by the Dedicatee

WODEHOUSE, P.G. Barmy in Wonderland. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1952.

8vo. Publisher’s red boards, spine lettered in black, in the illustrated dust-jacket by Frank Ford with printed price 9/6 to front flap; pp. 221, [3]; extremities of jacket worn with a few small nicks and closed tears, folds rubbed, upper hinge cracked, light spotting to edges of textblock; a very good copy; bookplate of Peter Diffley to front pastedown.

First 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 US one month later under the title Angel Cake. 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 A72a.

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