{"product_id":"wodehouse-p-g-mike-and-psmith","title":"WODEHOUSE, P.G. Mike and Psmith.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eSchool as ‘Cheerless Prison’\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e Mike and Psmith. \u003ci\u003eLondon: Herbert Jenkins\u003c\/i\u003e. 1953.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, spine lettered in black, in the price-clipped first-impression dust-jacket illustrated by W. Spence; pp. 190, [2]; extremities lightly nicked, small crease to lower right corner of front cover, some spotting to top-edge; lightly toned at head, slight spotting to first few ff.; otherwise very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, first printing of this school novel, reissuing under a new title the second part of \u003ci\u003eMike\u003c\/i\u003e (1909).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this story, Mike is removed from the fictional public school of Wrykyn and Psmith from Eton (due to a ‘rooted dislike of school-work’, jacket), and they find themselves at Sedleigh, comparatively a ‘dismal institution’; they come to realise, however, that ‘Sedleigh was not the cheerless prison they had at first believed and characteristically they set about making amends’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe story was first issued as a separate novel in 1935, under the title \u003ci\u003eEnter Psmith\u003c\/i\u003e. The first part was reissued separately in 1953 as \u003ci\u003eMike at Wrykyn\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcllvaine A12c3.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2126242\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64900373348729,"sku":"2126242","price":200.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2126242.jpg?v=1792136023","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/wodehouse-p-g-mike-and-psmith","provider":"Sotheran's","version":"1.0","type":"link"}