WODEHOUSE, P.G. Their Mutual Child.

Wodehouse at His Most Serious

WODEHOUSE, P.G. Their Mutual Child. New York: Boni and Liveright. 1919.

8vo. Publisher’s grey-blue cloth, spine and upper board lettered in white; pp. 284; boards and extremities rubbed, fading to white lettering (completely worn away to spine); pen marks to rear pastedown and rear board, rear hinge split but holding; uniform light toning; a good copy.

First edition in book form, first printing of Wodehouse’s only serious novel.

First appearing in the American Munsey’s Magazine in May 1914 as The White Hope, this story is often referred to as being the closest Wodehouse came to a serious novel. It was published in the UK by Herbert Jenkins the following year as The Coming of Bill. The story deals with the young Bill, whose eugenicist, germophobic aunt attempts to interfere with his upbringing.

Mcllvaine A23a.

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