{"product_id":"wodehouse-p-g-mike-at-wrykyn","title":"WODEHOUSE, P.G. Mike at Wrykyn.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eCricket Stories in the Land of Baseball\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e Mike at Wrykyn. \u003ci\u003eNew York: The Meredith Press\u003c\/i\u003e. 1953.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Publisher’s pale blue-green cloth, spine lettered in black, yellow endpapers, in the unclipped first-impression sage green dust-jacket illustrated by Charles Waterhouse; pp. x, 235, [1 (blank)]; light sunning to spine and edges of boards, a few nicks to extremities of jacket; otherwise near-fine; inscribed by Wodehouse ‘With best wishes | P.G. Wodehouse | Oct 4, 1968’ in blue ink to title.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst US edition, first printing of this school novel, reissuing under a new title the first part of \u003ci\u003eMike\u003c\/i\u003e (1909), this copy inscribed by the author ‘with best wishes’.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMike, a talented cricket player, here competes with his brother Bob for the sole vacancy on the Wrykyn cricket team. In this edition, Wodehouse provides a new introduction which ‘gives a brief explanation of the peculiar pastime of cricket (a game which Mr. Wodehouse admits he finds inferior to baseball!)’ (\u003ci\u003ejacket\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second half of \u003ci\u003eMike\u003c\/i\u003e was reworked as \u003ci\u003eEnter Psmith\u003c\/i\u003e (1935) and, later, as \u003ci\u003eMike\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePsmith\u003c\/i\u003e (1953).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcllvaine A12e.3.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2126227\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64900379115897,"sku":"2126227","price":850.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2126227.jpg?v=1792136173","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/wodehouse-p-g-mike-at-wrykyn","provider":"Sotheran's","version":"1.0","type":"link"}