{"product_id":"wodehouse-p-g-money-in-the-bank-1","title":"WODEHOUSE, P.G. Money in the Bank.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003e'Written in a Whirl of Ping-Pong Balls’\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e Money in the Bank. \u003ci\u003eLondon: Herbert Jenkins\u003c\/i\u003e. 1946.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Publisher’s orange cloth lettered in black to spine and upper board, illustrated dust-jacket by Frank Ford with printed price 8\/6 to front flap; pp. 253, [1 (blank)], [2 (publisher’s advertisements)]; wear to jacket with creasing and chipping to edges with some loss to foot of spine (\u003ci\u003ec.\u003c\/i\u003e 25 x 32 mm), jacket sunned to spine and cloth likewise, rubbing to lettering, light spotting to edges of textblock; previous owner’s name and address neatly written to front free endpaper; very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst UK edition, first printing of the novel that Wodehouse wrote whilst in an internment camp in Upper Silesia.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWodehouse would later write in \u003ci\u003eThe Performing Flea\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eMoney in the Bank\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Saturday Evening Post\u003c\/i\u003e from 8 November to 27 December 1941, with illustrations by Rudolph Pott. It was not serialised in the UK. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcllvaine A64b. See Wodehouse, Performing Flea\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003e1961\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2126255\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64900366434681,"sku":"2126255","price":275.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2126255.jpg?v=1792135899","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/wodehouse-p-g-money-in-the-bank-1","provider":"Sotheran's","version":"1.0","type":"link"}