WODEHOUSE, P.G. The Clicking of Cuthbert.

Introducing the Oldest Member

WODEHOUSE, P.G. The Clicking of Cuthbert. London: Herbert Jenkins. 1922.

8vo. Publisher’s sage green cloth, spine and upper board lettered and decorated in green; light rubbing to corners, spine ends bumped and lightly worn; offsetting to endpapers, light spotting to first gathering and to edges of textblock; otherwise a very good copy; juvenile gift inscription ‘to Thérèse’ to front free endpaper.

First edition, first printing of this collection of stories, introducing Wodehouse’s recurring character the Oldest Member, who narrates all but one.

A collection of ten short stories centred on golf, later published in the US under the title Golf Without Tears (1924), with minor changes. Each story had previously appeared in British and American magazines.

Mcllvaine A27a.

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