{"product_id":"wodehouse-p-g-uncle-dynamite","title":"WODEHOUSE, P.G. Uncle Dynamite.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eWritten Amidst ‘Constant Interruptions’\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e Uncle Dynamite. \u003ci\u003eLondon: Herbert Jenkins Limited.\u003c\/i\u003e 1948.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Publisher’s orange cloth, lettered in black to spine and upper board, illustrated dust-jacket by Frank Ford with printed price 8\/6 to front flap; pp. 249, [1 (blank)], [2 (publisher’s advertisements)]; sunning to jacket spine, soiling to whites of jacket, spotting visible to verso, a little spotting to edges of textblock, spotting to endpapers, but otherwise internally clean; very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcllvaine A68a. See Wodehouse, Performing Flea\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003e1961\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2126298\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64900344414585,"sku":"2126298","price":250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2126298.jpg?v=1792135479","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/wodehouse-p-g-uncle-dynamite","provider":"Sotheran's","version":"1.0","type":"link"}