{"product_id":"wodehouse-p-g-money-in-the-bank","title":"WODEHOUSE, P.G. Money in the Bank.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eWritten in a Silesian Internment Camp\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e Money in the Bank. \u003ci\u003eNew York: Doubleday, Doran \u0026amp; Company\u003c\/i\u003e. 1942.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition in book form, 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?’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDespite 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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. 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 A64a. See Wodehouse, Performing Flea\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003e1961\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2126287\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64900350345593,"sku":"2126287","price":175.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2126287.jpg?v=1792135600","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/wodehouse-p-g-money-in-the-bank","provider":"Sotheran's","version":"1.0","type":"link"}