{"product_id":"wodehouse-p-g-the-old-reliable","title":"WODEHOUSE, P.G. The Old Reliable.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eHollywood Through Wodehouse’s Eyes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Old Reliable. \u003ci\u003eLondon: Herbert Jenkins\u003c\/i\u003e. 1951.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Publisher’s red-orange cloth, spine and upper board lettered in black, in the unclipped first-issue dust-jacket by Frank Ford; pp. 233, [3]; jacket somewhat rubbed and worn to joints and corners, light wear to spine ends, top-edge slightly dusty, some spotting to top- and fore-edges; light spotting to prelims and endpapers; a very good copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, first printing of Wodehouse’s comic novel set in a Hollywood mansion.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Old Reliable\u003c\/i\u003e, trouble ensues when the brother of the movie star Adela Cork attempts to steal her scandalous diary, hoping to profit from its secrets about her fellow actors. The plot developed from \u003ci\u003eSpring Fever\u003c\/i\u003e (1948), with the setting transferred from an English country house to the glamour of Hollywood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing the delayed publication of \u003ci\u003eSpring Fever\u003c\/i\u003e, amid the controversy surrounding his wartime broadcasts from Berlin, Wodehouse adapted the novel for the stage as a play intended for Edward Everett Horton, reshaping the material for an American audience. Horton’s other commitments prevented the play from being produced, and Wodehouse continued to revise it through several drafts before ultimately reworking its premise and characters into \u003ci\u003eThe Old Reliable\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDespite Wodehouse’s rewriting of the material with an American audience in mind, the UK edition was published nine months before the US, which was released in May 1951.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcIlvaine A71a.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2126289\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64900348150137,"sku":"2126289","price":200.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2126289.jpg?v=1792135565","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/wodehouse-p-g-the-old-reliable","provider":"Sotheran's","version":"1.0","type":"link"}