WODEHOUSE, P.G. Louder and Funnier.

‘Louder, Please ... and Funnier!’

WODEHOUSE, P.G. Louder and Funnier. London: Faber and Faber. 1932.

8vo. Publisher’s yellow cloth, spine lettered in metallic blue, in the unclipped first-issue cream pictorial dust-jacket by Rex Whistler, incorporating an image of a Roman bust of Wodehouse with a laurel wreath, decorated in pale green and pink and printed in black; pp. 286; small chip to foot of spine affecting two letters of text, loss to head of spine (c. 20 mm), slight offsetting to cloth spine from jacket, jacket splitting at spine with old tape repairs; light foxing to a few pp., endpapers spotted; else very good.

First edition, first printing of this collection of humorous essays and articles ranging in subject from income tax to William Shakespeare, scarce in the dust-jacket.

Wodehouse took the title from an oft-repeated anecdote about a nervous after-dinner speaker who is interrupted when a voice calls out ‘Louder, please’, followed shortly afterwards by another voice shouting ‘Louder, please… and funnier.’

Most of the essays had previously appeared in Vanity Fair, in some cases under pseudonyms including Pelham Grenville or P. Brooke-Haven.

Mcllvaine A45a.

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