WODEHOUSE, P. G.

£3,000 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Uneasy Money. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author the month after publication on the front free endpaper, "To Brad, with every possible good wish, as always, from the author, P. G. Wodehouse, April 1916". Leslie Havergal Bradshaw was one of Wodehouse's earliest friends in America and the dedicatee of Psmith in the City (1910).Bradshaw (1892-1950) became a confidant of Wodehouse after interviewing him for The Captain to discuss the magazine's serialization of Psmith Journalist in 1909. It was "the first time Wodehouse had submitted to journalistic analysis" (McCrum, p. 92). Both were British writers staying in America, and as Wodehouse moved away from school stories, Bradshaw moved towards them. "Wodehouse helped Bradshaw with his plots; Bradshaw used his literary contacts to act as Wodehouse's unofficial agent" (Ratcliffe, pp. 71-2). This copy was sold at Sotheby's, New York, in 1982, lot 349.Uneasy Money was published in America first, and in Britain a year later.

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