WODEHOUSE, P.G. The Intrusion of Jimmy.

Interrupted Love and Scrapes with the Law

WODEHOUSE, P.G. The Intrusion of Jimmy. New York: W.J. Watt & Company. 1910.

8vo. Publisher’s sand-grained black cloth, upper board with circular colour portrait onlay against yellow and grey grounds, spine and upper board lettered in gilt; pp. [6], 314; colour frontispiece and 4 black-and-white plates by Will Grefe; title within stippled border; slightly cocked, upper board lightly rubbed; small dampstain to inner margin of first quire, spotting to pp. 153–57; else very good.

First edition, first printing, later published in the UK with minor textual differences as A Gentleman of Leisure.

Originally appearing in the US in a much shorter version in the novella The Gem Collector (Ainslee’s Magazine, December 1909), the story was serialised under the same title in the British weekly magazine Tit-Bits between 11 June and 10 September 1910, before being published in the UK as A Gentleman of Leisure by Alston Rivers on 15 November 1910.

The novel contains many of the themes that would reappear in the Jeeves and Wooster and Blandings Castle books, including interrupted love, scrapes with the law, a country house setting, and a missing necklace.

Mcllvaine A13a.

SKU: 2126091