{"product_id":"wodehouse-p-g-young-men-in-spats","title":"WODEHOUSE, P.G. Young Men in Spats.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eWith Two Stories Omitted from the US Edition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.\u003c\/strong\u003e Young Men in Spats. \u003ci\u003eLondon: Herbert Jenkins Limited.\u003c\/i\u003e 1936.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Publisher’s teal cloth, lettered and decorated in black to boards and spine, top-edge green, illustrated dust-jacket by Gilbert Wilkinson priced at 7\/6 to spine; pp. 312, [8 (publisher’s advertisements)]; dust-jacket with chips to corners of flaps, wear to edges, three amateur tape repairs to verso of dust-jacket spine folds, slight warping to boards, a few spots to edges of textblock; slight offsetting and light spotting to endpapers, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper; otherwise a very good copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst 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. The UK edition contains two stories omitted from the US edition: ‘Tried in the Furnace’ and ‘Trouble Down at Tudsleigh’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcllvaine A55a.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2126292\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64900346380665,"sku":"2126292","price":800.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2126292.jpg?v=1792135531","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/wodehouse-p-g-young-men-in-spats","provider":"Sotheran's","version":"1.0","type":"link"}