{"product_id":"wodehouse-p-g-young-men-in-spats-1","title":"WODEHOUSE, P.G. Young Men in Spats.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eWith Three Stories Omitted from the UK Edition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e Young Men in Spats. \u003ci\u003eGarden City: Doubleday, Doran \u0026amp; Company.\u003c\/i\u003e 1936.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Publisher’s green cloth, lettered and decorated in darker green to upper board and spine, top-edge green, fore-edge untrimmed, illustrated dust-jacket by ‘Roese’ priced at $2.00 to front flap, with publisher’s code ‘2311–36’ to back flap as called for by McIlvaine; pp. [6], 297, [1 (blank)]; closed tear to bottom left corner of front panel of dust-jacket (\u003ci\u003ec.\u003c\/i\u003e 35 mm) and to bottom edge of rear panel (\u003ci\u003ec.\u003c\/i\u003e 20 mm), very minor wear to edges, but overall dust-jacket crisp and bright, sunning to cloth at spine and edges; otherwise, a very good copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst US edition in book form, first printing of a collection of eleven stories recounting the adventures of the Drones Club set, featuring familiar Wodehouse characters such as Mr. Mulliner and Freddie Widgeon.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Drones Club was modelled on Buck’s Club in Mayfair, founded in 1919 by young officers after the First World War. The term ‘drone’, referring to a male bee that does no work and lives off others, neatly captured the stereotype of wealthy, idle young gentlemen of the post-war era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese stories were first serialised in the UK in various issues of \u003ci\u003eThe Strand\u003c\/i\u003e in May 1931 and between March 1934 to April 1936. In the US, they appeared in \u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Red Book\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThis Week\u003c\/i\u003e from 1933 to 1936. They were first collected in book form in the UK on 3 April 1936, followed by the US edition on 24 July 1936. This present US edition features three stories which were omitted from the UK edition: ‘There’s Always Golf!’, ‘The Letter of the Law’, and ‘Farewell to Legs’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcllvaine A55b.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2126290\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64900347953529,"sku":"2126290","price":550.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2126290.jpg?v=1792135548","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/wodehouse-p-g-young-men-in-spats-1","provider":"Sotheran's","version":"1.0","type":"link"}