WODEHOUSE, P. G.

£1,500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Fish Preferred. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his biographer and bibliographer Jasen on the front free endpaper, "To David all the best from Plum, P. G. Wodehouse, 16 Oct. 1963". 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 novel in the Blandings series was published in Britain later the same year under the title Summer Lightning.

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