{"product_id":"wodehouse-p-g-the-intrusion-of-jimmy","title":"WODEHOUSE, P.G. The Intrusion of Jimmy.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eInterrupted Love and Scrapes with the Law\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Intrusion of Jimmy. \u003ci\u003eNew York: W.J. Watt \u0026amp; Company\u003c\/i\u003e. 1910.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, first printing, later published in the UK with minor textual differences as \u003ci\u003eA Gentleman of Leisure\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally appearing in the US in a much shorter version in the novella \u003ci\u003eThe Gem Collector\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eAinslee’s Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, December 1909), the story was serialised under the same title in the British weekly magazine \u003ci\u003eTit-Bits\u003c\/i\u003e between 11 June and 10 September 1910, before being published in the UK as \u003ci\u003eA Gentleman of Leisure\u003c\/i\u003e by Alston Rivers on 15 November 1910.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcllvaine A13a\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2126091\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64900424597881,"sku":"2126091","price":500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2126091.jpg?v=1792137000","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/wodehouse-p-g-the-intrusion-of-jimmy","provider":"Sotheran's","version":"1.0","type":"link"}