{"product_id":"wodehouse-p-g-cocktail-time","title":"WODEHOUSE, P.G. Cocktail Time.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003ePresented to a San Francisco Bookseller\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e Cocktail Time. \u003ci\u003eNew York: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster.\u003c\/i\u003e 1958.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Publisher’s pink cloth-backed boards with black sides, spine lettered in black and olive green, in the illustrated dust-jacket designed by Robert Shore with printed price of $3.50 to front flap; pp. [4], 219, [1]; spine of jacket sunned with small chip to head of spine, lower edges of boards a little rubbed; authorial presentation inscription in black ink to front free endpaper dated 28 November 1960 (\u003ci\u003esee below\u003c\/i\u003e); Wodehouse-inspired bookplate of James H. Heineman to front pastedown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst US edition, first printing, presented by Wodehouse to the San Francisco book dealer David Magee with wishes for a ‘Happy New Year’.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCocktail Time\u003c\/i\u003e, Wodehouse’s third novel to feature Uncle Fred, was first published in a shorter version in the \u003ci\u003eLadies Home Journal\u003c\/i\u003e (April 1958). When 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. Published anonymously as ‘Cocktail Time’, a series of schemes involving its authorship, royalties and film rights soon ensue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eProvenance:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1.        Presented by Wodehouse to Anglo-American bookseller and Wodehouse enthusiast David Magee (1905–1977), author of the Wodehouse-esque comic novel \u003ci\u003eJam Tomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e (1941).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2.        James Heineman (1917–1994), New York publisher and renowned Wodehouse collector.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcllvaine A8lb.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2126319\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64900341432697,"sku":"2126319","price":850.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2126319.jpg?v=1792135335","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/wodehouse-p-g-cocktail-time","provider":"Sotheran's","version":"1.0","type":"link"}