performing flea portrait letters introduction de wodehouse p g (6 résultats)

1st edition. Good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled, stained, nicked and rubbed as with age. Text remains clear and without blemish with slight browning to the pages. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 300 p 18 cm. Notes; Comprises a selection of the letters Wodehouse wrote to Townend over a period of more than thirty years. Includes index. Originally published: H. Jenkins, 1953. Subjects; Penguin books (series). 20th century literature. Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) 1881-1975 ; Correspondence. Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) 1881-1975. Authors, English 20th century ; Correspondence. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. blue cloth, 224 pages,frontis. portrait, d.j is shelf worn, with edge chips and teaars,

1st edition. Good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled, stained, nicked and rubbed as with age. Text remains clear and without blemish with slight browning to the pages. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 300 p 18 cm. Notes; Comprises a selection of the letters Wodehouse wrote to Townend over a period of more than thirty years. Includes index. Originally published: H. Jenkins, 1953. Subjects; Penguin books (series). 20th century literature. Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) 1881-1975 ; Correspondence. Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) 1881-1975. Authors, English 20th century ; Correspondence. 1 Kg.

Hardback. Etat : VG. Etat de la jaquette : No DW. Reprint. Owners address label on front endpaper. Clean tight copy has some edge spotting.

First edition of this collection of Wodehouse's personal letters. The title takes its name from Seán O'Casey's jibe against Wodehouse, "If England has any dignity left in the way of literature she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English literature's performing flea" (The Daily Telegraph). McIlvaine A76a. The Daily Telegraph, 8 July 1941. Octavo. Photographic portrait frontispiece. Original blue boards, spine lettered in gilt, facsimile Wodehouse signature to front cover in gilt, publisher's device in blind to rear cover. With dust jacket. Ownership inscription of one R. H. Fotheringham to front free endpaper. Spine ends bumped, a couple of spots to front cover; jacket a little rubbed, a few short closed tears and nicks, insect related wear to rear panel and flap fold, price-clipped: a very good copy in like jacket.

First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his biographer and bibliographer Jasen, "To David from Plum, P. G. Wodehouse". Loosely inserted are two typed letters signed "Plum" by Wodehouse to Jasen, providing the researcher with recent life updates and information about his earlier years; they are accompanied by the original envelopes and a handwritten list of queries by Jasen. The first letter, dated 21 November 1961, provides a list of answers to Jasen's nine queries. One of Wodehouse's responses reads, "I lived for quite a while in a room over the stables at the school, and then rented various houses in the village. I don't know if you have read a very early book of mine called The Little Nugget, but the scene of that was Emsworth House". In the second letter, dated 7 March 1964, Wodehouse discusses the health of his wife Ethel and observes "I am in my usual state of despair after finishing a book. What I want is some scene or some central idea that I can sit and mull over. I have hundreds of pages of ideas for books, but they are all for the start [and] present the same problem - viz. where do I go from here?". 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 published collection of correspondence Performing Flea is titled after Seán O'Casey's jibe against Wodehouse: "If England has any dignity left in the way of literature she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English literature's performing flea" (The Daily Telegraph, 8 July 1941). Jasen 74a; McIlvaine A76a. Octavo. Photographic portrait frontispiece. Original blue boards, spine lettered in gilt, facsimile Wodehouse signature to front cover in gilt, publisher's device in blind to rear cover. With dust jacket. Spine lightly toned, ends bumped, a few spots of foxing to fore edge; jacket rubbed, shallow loss at head of spine, extremities a little chipped, a few short closed tears, vertical crease to spine, unclipped: a very good copy in like jacket.