{"product_id":"wodehouse-p-g-if-i-were-you-1","title":"WODEHOUSE, P.G. If I Were You.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eBased on an Unproduced Wodehouse Play\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e If I Were You. \u003ci\u003eNew York: Doubleday \u0026amp; Company\u003c\/i\u003e. 1931.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Publisher’s orange cloth, lettered in maroon to upper board and spine, fore-edge untrimmed, top-edge stained yellow, illustrated dust-jacket by Henrietta Starrett with printed price of $2.00 to front flap and publisher’s codes ‘981’ and ‘1894’ to front and back flap respectively as called for by McIlvaine; pp. [6], 305, [1 (blank)]; spine of jacket very lightly sunned, minor wear to spine ends of jacket pushing to cloth spine; previous owner’s name in blue ink to front pastedown, otherwise internally clean and bright; a very good copy in a crisp jacket; contemporary bookseller’s label of Hudson’s Bookshop, Detroit to rear pastedown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, first printing of this novel, based on an unproduced play of the same name by Wodehouse and Guy Bolton (1884–1979), to whom this book is dedicated.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIf I Were You\u003c\/i\u003e follows the romantic trials of Tony, fifth Earl of Droitwich, whose life is complicated by a long-hidden family secret. The play was never produced, and the story was instead serialised in the US in \u003ci\u003eThe American Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e from April to July 1931, and in the UK in the \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e from 5 June to 3 July 1931. Wodehouse subsequently expanded the text for book publication, with this US edition issued by Doubleday, Doran \u0026amp; Company on 3 September 1931 and the first UK edition following shortly afterwards, published by Herbert Jenkins on 25 September.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWodehouse and Bolton later adapted the novel into a new play, \u003ci\u003eWho’s Who?\u003c\/i\u003e, which opened at London’s Duke of York’s Theatre on 20 September 1934.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcllvaine A44a.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2126323\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64900341334393,"sku":"2126323","price":500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2126323.jpg?v=1792135318","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/wodehouse-p-g-if-i-were-you-1","provider":"Sotheran's","version":"1.0","type":"link"}