{"product_id":"wodehouse-p-g-cocktail-time-1","title":"WODEHOUSE, P.G. Cocktail Time.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eThe Third Uncle Fred Novel\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e Cocktail Time. \u003ci\u003eLondon: Herbert Jenkins\u003c\/i\u003e. 1958.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, lettered in black to spine, in the unclipped illustrated dust-jacket by Hall; pp. 222, [2 (publisher’s advertisements)]; slight wear to edges of jacket, light spotting to edges of textblock; offsetting and spotting to endpapers; very good; old Sotheran’s booklabel to front free endpaper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, first printing of Wodehouse’s third novel to feature the energetic and mischievous Uncle Fred.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Uncle Fred knocks Sir Raymond Bastable’s top hat off with a Brazil nut fired from a catapult, the pompous barrister (preparing to stand for Parliament) is persuaded to write a novel exposing the supposed misdeeds of the younger generation, assuming that the culprit was a young member of the Drones. His book is published anonymously as ‘Cocktail Time’, and a series of schemes involving its authorship, royalties and film rights soon ensue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe novel had first been published in a shorter version in the \u003ci\u003eLadies Home Journal\u003c\/i\u003e (April 1958).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcllvaine A81a.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2126257\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64900364108153,"sku":"2126257","price":125.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2126257.jpg?v=1792135864","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/wodehouse-p-g-cocktail-time-1","provider":"Sotheran's","version":"1.0","type":"link"}