{"product_id":"wodehouse-p-g-uncle-dynamite-1","title":"WODEHOUSE, P.G. Uncle Dynamite.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eStolen Identity and Stolen Property\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e Uncle Dynamite. \u003ci\u003eNew York: Didier\u003c\/i\u003e. 1948.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in silver to spine, with facsimile signature in silver to upper board, illustrated dust-jacket by Hal McIntosh with printed price $2.95 to front flap; pp. [8], 312, with black-and-white illustrations by Hal McIntosh throughout; light sunning to jacket spine, but otherwise crisp and fresh, pushing (with a little wear) to spine ends; near fine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst US edition, first printing of the second full-length novel to feature Uncle Fred dragging his nephew Pongo into a tangled web of impersonation, stolen property, and romantic entanglements.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe novel was written in February 1945, when Wodehouse was staying at a private medical clinic in France under police surveillance, having been released from custody while still under suspicion of treason and collaboration. He recalls the difficulty of writing there in a letter to William Towenend: ‘I managed to get a hundred pages done while in the clinic, in spite of constant interruptions. I would start writing and get a paragraph done when the nurse would come in and sluice water all over the floor’ (Wodehouse, p. 140).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe novel was first published in the UK on 22 October 1948, and the US publication followed a month later on 29 November 1948. It was later condensed for serialisation in April 1949, for \u003ci\u003eLiberty\u003c\/i\u003e in the US.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcllvaine A68b. See Wodehouse, Performing Flea\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003e1961\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2126275\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64900356866425,"sku":"2126275","price":200.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2126275.jpg?v=1792135707","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/wodehouse-p-g-uncle-dynamite-1","provider":"Sotheran's","version":"1.0","type":"link"}