{"product_id":"wodehouse-p-g-wodehouse-p-g-no-nudes-is-good-nudes","title":"WODEHOUSE, P.G. WODEHOUSE, P.G. No Nudes is Good Nudes.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003e'One of Wodehouse’s Funniest Yet’\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e WODEHOUSE, P.G. No Nudes is Good Nudes. \u003ci\u003eNew York: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster.\u003c\/i\u003e 1970.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[\u003ci\u003eoffered with:\u003c\/i\u003e]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e[WODEHOUSE, P.G.] \u003c\/strong\u003e A small archive of letters and publishing material concerning the publication of \u003ci\u003eNo Nudes is Good Nudes\u003c\/i\u003e. [\u003ci\u003ec.\u003c\/i\u003e 1969–1970.]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNo Nudes is Good Nudes\u003c\/i\u003e: 8vo. Publisher’s quarter dark orange cloth over bright orange paper-covered boards, spine lettered in black, in the illustrated dust-jacket Barry Zaid with printed price $4.95; pp. 220; very minor toning to jacket spine, slight pushing to spine ends; near fine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eArchive\u003c\/i\u003e: ff. [4] (each 280 x 220 mm), comprising two typed letters and one editorial report annotated and initialled in black ink by Peter Schwed; one typed card (\u003ci\u003ec.\u003c\/i\u003e 180 x 110 mm) signed in blue ink by Scott Meredith; occasional creasing, old tape and short closed tear to top edge of editorial report; overall very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst US edition, first printing of the last fully completed novel in the Blandings Castle series, this copy accompanied by a group of correspondence and publishing material including an editorial report from Simon \u0026amp; Schuster and typed letters addressed to Wodehouse and his US editor, Peter Schwed (1911–2003).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet largely at Blandings, the novel revolves around a tangled scheme involving a nude painting, a wealthy American, and the Duke of Dunstable, with Galahad Threepwood attempting to untangle the romantic and financial complications.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a letter to Schwed included here, literary agent Scott Meredith (1923–1993) proposes the earlier title \u003ci\u003ePigs, Nudes and Pelicans\u003c\/i\u003e, confidently predicting that Schwed would consider it ‘one of [Wodehouse’s] funniest yet’. This working title also appears on the Simon \u0026amp; Schuster editorial department report, where it has been corrected in black ink to \u003ci\u003eNo Nudes is Good Nudes\u003c\/i\u003e. Schwed evidently shared Meredith’s enthusiasm, initialling the report and adding: ‘One of the best! Let’s Go!’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe title change is particularly amusing in light of Wodehouse’s own views on nudity. Writing to his friend and fellow author Denis Mackail in 1945 about ‘the subject of the Nude on stage’, Wodehouse described his new workroom in Paris as ‘very good’, but complained of one ‘drawback, which can be easily remedied by taking the dam thing down […] is an enormous picture of a nude […] I have already expressed to you my views on nudes, I want no piece of them.’ (Ratcliffe, pp. 372–73)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe accompanying material includes two photocopied pages from Simon \u0026amp; Schuster’s internal files. One observes that ‘anyone who works for Simon \u0026amp; Schuster and doesn’t know about P.G. Wodehouse by this time had better go into the data-computing business’ and provides a brief synopsis of the novel; the other outlines the copy-writing intended for the dust-jacket flaps. There is also a photocopy of a review by Peter S. Prescott, who often reviewed Wodehouse’s work, and two carbon copies of letters written to Wodehouse. In one, Schwed suggests that Wodehouse read a complimentary review about his writing; the other, from Schwed’s secretary, remarks that ‘one of the nicer things about working with Peter has been exposure to P.G. Wodehouse’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcllvaine A92b. See Ratcliffe ed., P.G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters (2011).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2126208\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64900383539577,"sku":"2126208","price":250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2126208.jpg?v=1792136377","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/wodehouse-p-g-wodehouse-p-g-no-nudes-is-good-nudes","provider":"Sotheran's","version":"1.0","type":"link"}