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Written in a Silesian Internment Camp
WODEHOUSE, P.G. Money in the Bank. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company. 1942.
8vo. Publisher’s dark red cloth, lettered and decorated in black to spine and upper board, fore-edge untrimmed, illustrated dust-jacket by Donald McKay with printed price $2.00 to front flap and publisher’s code ‘864–41’ to back panel as called for by McIlvaine; pp. [8], 300; jacket worn and sunned to spine, two tape repairs to verso spine folds, slight damp staining along top-edge with slight discolouration of cloth and jacket but not affecting text, illustration remains bright on front panel, fraying and fading to spine ends, bumping to corners, a few light spots to top-edge; pp. 199–236 with wormhole to bottom right corner, spotting and offsetting to endpapers; a good copy.
First edition in book form, first printing of the novel that Wodehouse wrote whilst in an internment camp in Upper Silesia.
Wodehouse would later write in The Performing Flea that it was the ‘only novel, I should imagine, that has ever been written in an internment camp. I did it at the rate of about a page a day in a room with over fifty men playing cards and ping-pong and talking and singing. The first twelve chapters were written in a whirl of ping-pong balls.’ (Wodehouse, p. 131) Wodehouse had also famously quipped about his writing environment, ‘If this is Upper Silesia, what on earth must Lower Silesia be like?’
Despite his surroundings, Wodehouse set Money in the Bank in the familiar world of the English country house, with the fictional Shipley Manor modelled on Fairlawne in Kent, where his daughter lived following her marriage in 1932.
The novel was first serialised in America in The Saturday Evening Post from 8 November to 27 December 1941, with illustrations by Rudolph Pott. The American book form edition followed on 9 January 1942, but the publication in the UK was delayed until 1946 amid the controversy surrounding Wodehouse’s wartime broadcasts for Germany.
Mcllvaine A64a. See Wodehouse, Performing Flea (1961).
SKU: 2126287
Written in a Silesian Internment Camp
WODEHOUSE, P.G. Money in the Bank. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company. 1942.
8vo. Publisher’s dark red cloth, lettered and decorated in black to spine and upper board, fore-edge untrimmed, illustrated dust-jacket by Donald McKay with printed price $2.00 to front flap and publisher’s code ‘864–41’ to back panel as called for by McIlvaine; pp. [8], 300; jacket worn and sunned to spine, two tape repairs to verso spine folds, slight damp staining along top-edge with slight discolouration of cloth and jacket but not affecting text, illustration remains bright on front panel, fraying and fading to spine ends, bumping to corners, a few light spots to top-edge; pp. 199–236 with wormhole to bottom right corner, spotting and offsetting to endpapers; a good copy.
First edition in book form, first printing of the novel that Wodehouse wrote whilst in an internment camp in Upper Silesia.
Wodehouse would later write in The Performing Flea that it was the ‘only novel, I should imagine, that has ever been written in an internment camp. I did it at the rate of about a page a day in a room with over fifty men playing cards and ping-pong and talking and singing. The first twelve chapters were written in a whirl of ping-pong balls.’ (Wodehouse, p. 131) Wodehouse had also famously quipped about his writing environment, ‘If this is Upper Silesia, what on earth must Lower Silesia be like?’
Despite his surroundings, Wodehouse set Money in the Bank in the familiar world of the English country house, with the fictional Shipley Manor modelled on Fairlawne in Kent, where his daughter lived following her marriage in 1932.
The novel was first serialised in America in The Saturday Evening Post from 8 November to 27 December 1941, with illustrations by Rudolph Pott. The American book form edition followed on 9 January 1942, but the publication in the UK was delayed until 1946 amid the controversy surrounding Wodehouse’s wartime broadcasts for Germany.
Mcllvaine A64a. See Wodehouse, Performing Flea (1961).
SKU: 2126287
