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The Clicking of Cuthbert.
by WODEHOUSE, P.G
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1922. . First edition, first impression; 8vo; some offsetting to endpapers, a few early pages nicked at fore-edge, else unmarked internally; publisher's green pictorial cloth, lettered and stamped in dark green, light wear to extremities, with the original pictorial dustjacket, light soiling and a few stains, a few small tears or chips, that to head of spine panel with slight associated loss; a very good copy.
First edition in the rare dustjacket.
A collection of golfing short stories: the first story introduces the Oldest Member, a recurring Wodehouse character, who narrates all but the last story. Character names, places, and famous golfers were later altered for American audiences in the 1924 US edition. The dustjacket bears a comical illustration by C. Morse, which depicts a group of miniaturised men as clubs in a woman's golf bag.
McIlvaine A27a.
First edition in the rare dustjacket.
A collection of golfing short stories: the first story introduces the Oldest Member, a recurring Wodehouse character, who narrates all but the last story. Character names, places, and famous golfers were later altered for American audiences in the 1924 US edition. The dustjacket bears a comical illustration by C. Morse, which depicts a group of miniaturised men as clubs in a woman's golf bag.
McIlvaine A27a.
Synopsis
From the book:This book marks an epoch in my literary career. It is written in blood. It is the outpouring of a soul as deeply seared by Fate's unkindness as the pretty on the dog-leg hole of the second nine was ever seared by my iron. It is the work of a very nearly desperate man, an eighteen-handicap man who has got to look extremely slippy if he doesn't want to find himself in the twenties again. As a writer of light fiction, I have always till now been handicapped by the fact that my disposition was cheerful, my heart intact, and my life unsoured. Handicapped, I say, because the public likes to feel that a writer of farcical stories is piquantly miserable in his private life, and that, if he turns out anything amusing, he does it simply in order to obtain relief from the almost insupportable weight of an existence which he has long since realized to be a wash-out. Well, today I am just like that. Two years ago, I admit, I was a shallow farceur. My work lacked depth. I wrote flippantly simply because I was having a thoroughly good time. Then I took up golf, and now I can smile through the tears and laugh, like Figaro, that I may not weep, and generally hold my head up and feel that I am entitled to respect.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shapero Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 110534
- Title
- The Clicking of Cuthbert.
- Author
- WODEHOUSE, P.G
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London, Herbert Jenkins, 1922.
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