{"product_id":"wodehouse-p-g-big-money","title":"WODEHOUSE, P.G. Big Money.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eBrentano’s as ‘the Center’ of Wodehouse’s World\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e Big Money. \u003ci\u003eNew York: Doubleday, Doran \u0026amp; Company\u003c\/i\u003e. 1931.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Publisher’s orange cloth, lettered in orange on a black background to spine and upper board, in the illustrated dust-jacket by Harry Beckhoff with the printed price of $2.00 and the publisher’s code 1893 to the flaps as called for by McIlvaine, fore-edge untrimmed, dark green illustrated endpapers; pp. [viii], 316; chipping to dust-jacket spine ends, closed tears to folds (\u003ci\u003ec.\u003c\/i\u003e 70 mm, and c. 55 mm) and rear panel (\u003ci\u003ec.\u003c\/i\u003e 20 mm), pushing to spine ends with some fraying of cloth, spine sunned; a few sporadic light marks; otherwise a very good copy; tipped-in autograph note in black ink from P.G. Wodehouse to M.G. Michaels (\u003ci\u003esee below\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, first printing, this copy with a tipped-in autograph note from Wodehouse to the theatre producer M.G. Michaels ‘with best wishes from the author’ and with the postscript ‘If ever I am missing, look for me in Brentano’s. It is the center of my world.’\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA romantic and financial comedy about two young friends, Lord Biskerton (‘Biscuit’) and John Beresford Conway (‘Berry’), trying to raise money to enable them to marry their girlfriends. Brentano’s was a chain of bookstores with five stores in New York and had published Wodehouse’s 1927 \u003ci\u003eThe Play’s the Thing\u003c\/i\u003e, an adaptation of the 1924 Hungarian play \u003ci\u003eJáték a Kastélyban\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003ePlay at the Castle\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProvenance: the M.G. Michaels to whom this copy was presented is almost certainly the New York theatre producer of the same name, who in 1926 at Daly’s Sixty-Third Street Theatre staged a showing of the play \u003ci\u003eAntonia\u003c\/i\u003e, written by the Hungarian-Jewish playwright Melchior Lengyel and premiered on Broadway in 1925 at the Empire Theatre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcIlvaine A43a.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2126327\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64900340941177,"sku":"2126327","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2126327.jpg?v=1792135266","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/wodehouse-p-g-big-money","provider":"Sotheran's","version":"1.0","type":"link"}