{"product_id":"wodehouse-p-g-spring-fever","title":"WODEHOUSE, P.G. Spring Fever.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eA Collection of Classically Wodehousian Characters\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e Spring Fever. \u003ci\u003eGarden City: Doubleday \u0026amp; Company\u003c\/i\u003e. 1948.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Publisher’s maroon cloth lettered and decorated in white to spine, fore-edge untrimmed, illustrated dust-jacket by Paul Galdone with publisher’s codes (‘262–48’, ‘875–48’, and ‘877–48’) as called for by McIlvaine; pp. 223, [1 (blank)]; price-clipped, closed tear (\u003ci\u003ec.\u003c\/i\u003e 25 mm) midway down jacket spine, a little chipping to spine ends and corners, sunning to spine and spotting to whites of jacket, spotting to top-edge of textblock, pushing to spine ends; very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst US edition, first printing, published simultaneously in the UK on 20 May 1948, of this novel featuring none of Wodehouse’s regular characters, but a cast of familiar Wodehousian types.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpring Fever\u003c\/i\u003e follows the trials and tribulations of wealthy American businessman G. Ellery Cobbold, and his attempts to disentangle his son from a Hollywood actress by sending him to England. The novel belongs to the post-war phase of Wodehouse’s career, when his reputation was hindered by his Berlin wartime broadcasts. Writing to his friend William Townend in April 1945, Wodehouse remarked that he had several books ‘shuffling their feet nervously in the anteroom, wondering if they will ever get into print’ (Wodehouse, p. 143). While his reputation remained deeply troubled in Britain, Wodehouse retained a substantial American readership and ultimately settled in the United States from 1947, where his reception was considerably more favourable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWodehouse subsequently adapted \u003ci\u003eSpring Fever\u003c\/i\u003e for the stage for Edward Everett Horton, relocating the action to America. The project ultimately remained unproduced, although Wodehouse later drew on both the novel and the play for \u003ci\u003eThe Old Reliable\u003c\/i\u003e (1951), reworking the characters and plot into a new novel set against the background of Hollywood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcllvaine A67a. See Wodehouse, Performing Flea\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003e1961\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2126284\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64900351000953,"sku":"2126284","price":75.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2126284.jpg?v=1792135617","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/wodehouse-p-g-spring-fever","provider":"Sotheran's","version":"1.0","type":"link"}