{"product_id":"wodehouse-p-g-how-right-you-are-jeeves","title":"WODEHOUSE, P.G. How Right You Are, Jeeves.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003ePresented to Lord Citrine\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e How Right You Are, Jeeves. \u003ci\u003eNew York: Simon and Schuster,\u003c\/i\u003e 1960.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Publisher’s cloth-backed orange and white patterned boards, lettered in black to spine, in unclipped first-printing dust-jacket by Paul Bacon; pp. [8], 183, [1 (blank)]; extremities of jacket a little rubbed with small hole to fold of lower panel, light spotting to cloth spine and edges of textblock, corners and spine ends bumped; light offsetting to front free endpaper (from bookplate); presentation inscription ‘To Lord Citrine with a million thanks …’ in blue ink to front free endpaper; contemporary armorial bookplate of Walter McLennan Citrine, 1st Baron Citrine to front pastedown  (\u003ci\u003esee below\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, first printing of the eighth Jeeves and Wooster title, this a presentation copy warmly inscribed by Wodehouse to Walter McLennan Citrine, First Baron Citrine (1887–1983), thanking him for his help on \u003ci\u003eService with a Smile \u003c\/i\u003e(1961).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this story, Bertie finds himself at Brinkley Court with Sir Roderick Glossop and Bobbie Wickham, while Uncle Tom’s prized silver cow-creamer goes missing. The book was published in the UK a few months later by Herbert Jenkins, under the title \u003ci\u003eJeeves in the Offing.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis copy was presented to Lord Citrine ‘with a million thanks | for Acton and all the | help on SERVICE WITH | A SMILE [...] That is the title at present, | but I bet they will | want to change it – they | always do!’. In this case, Wodehouse’s proposed title remained unchanged. Lord Citrine was the long-serving General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), and a key wartime adviser to Winston Churchill. He later sat in the House of Lords, where he spoke on economic and industrial affairs. An amateur cornet player and palmist, he was also a keen book collector.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcIlvaine A83a.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2126090\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64900425187705,"sku":"2126090","price":1000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2126090.jpg?v=1792137018","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/wodehouse-p-g-how-right-you-are-jeeves","provider":"Sotheran's","version":"1.0","type":"link"}