{"product_id":"wodehouse-p-g-their-mutual-child","title":"WODEHOUSE, P.G. Their Mutual Child.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eWodehouse at His Most Serious\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e Their Mutual Child. \u003ci\u003eNew York: Boni and Liveright\u003c\/i\u003e. 1919.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition in book form, first printing of Wodehouse’s only serious novel.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst appearing in the American \u003ci\u003eMunsey’s Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e in May 1914 as \u003ci\u003eThe White Hope\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Coming of Bill\u003c\/i\u003e. The story deals with the young Bill, whose eugenicist, germophobic aunt attempts to interfere with his upbringing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcllvaine A23a.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2126313\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64900341596537,"sku":"2126313","price":300.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2126313.jpg?v=1792135370","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/wodehouse-p-g-their-mutual-child","provider":"Sotheran's","version":"1.0","type":"link"}