{"product_id":"wodehouse-p-g-the-purloined-paperweight","title":"WODEHOUSE, P.G. The Purloined Paperweight.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eThe ‘Best of Wodehouse Appreciators’\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Purloined Paperweight. \u003ci\u003eNew York: Simon and Schuster\u003c\/i\u003e. 1967.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Publisher’s quarter mustard cloth over blue paper-covered boards, lettered and decorated in blue to spine and upper board, top-edge yellow, in the illustrated dust-jacket by Seymour Chwast with printed price $4.50 to front flap; pp. [2], 188, [2 (blank)]; slight pushing to spine ends; near fine; with an inscription from Peter Schwed to Charles Gould in blue ink to the dedication page (\u003ci\u003esee below\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, first impression inscribed from Wodehouse’s Simon \u0026amp; Schuster editor, Peter Schwed (1911–2003), to the eminent Wodehouse collector Charles Gould\u003cbr\u003e(1944–2017).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe purloined paperweight was first published in the US on 12 May 1967, followed by the UK edition on 26 October 1967 under the alternative title \u003ci\u003eCompany for Henry\u003c\/i\u003e. The novel features Algy, who first appeared in \u003ci\u003eJill the Reckless\u003c\/i\u003e (1920).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWodehouse dedicated his book ‘To Peter Schwed, best of publishers’. Beneath this, Schwed writes: ‘and in turn | To Charles Gould | best of wodehouse appreciators’. Charles Gould was the author of \u003ci\u003eWhat’s in Wodehouse?\u003c\/i\u003e, a compendium of quizzes and ephemera relating to Wodehouse’s novels, and was a member of the Wodehouse society in both the UK and the US. Schwed became Wodehouse’s editor in 1954, beginning with the publication of \u003ci\u003eThe Return of Jeeves.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcllvaine A90a.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2126203\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64900384063865,"sku":"2126203","price":500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2126203.jpg?v=1792136394","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/wodehouse-p-g-the-purloined-paperweight","provider":"Sotheran's","version":"1.0","type":"link"}