WODEHOUSE, P. G.

£950 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Blandings Castle. First US edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his biographer and bibliographer Jasen on the front free endpaper, "To David 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.This collection of 12 short stories were initially serialized in the British magazine the Strand and in various American magazines. The novel was published in London five months prior as Blandings Castle and Elsewhere.

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