WODEHOUSE, P. G.

£3,750 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Carry On, Jeeves! First US edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his biographer and bibliographer Jasen, "To David, all the best from Plum. P. G. Wodehouse". Only Wodehouse's close friends and family knew him as "Plum".David A. Jasen (1937-2022) was the dedicatee of Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963). A ragtime scholar and performer, he shared a passion for music with Wodehouse, a famed musical lyricist.The third collection of Jeeves short stories includes "Jeeves Takes Charge", which chronicles the arrival of the famous butler into Bertie Wooster's life. The book was published in Britain two years prior.

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