Thank You, Jeeves

Lot 427
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Lot 427 | Thank You, Jeeves
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. (1881-1975). Thank You, Jeeves. London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1934.

The first full-length novel in the Jeeves and Wooster series: a fresh first edition. Previously serialised in the Strand Magazine in the UK from August 1933 to February 1934, and in Cosmopolitan Magazine in the US from January to June 1934, the story details the upcoming sale of Chuffnell Hall, home to Lord ‘Chuffy’ Chuffnell, friend of Bertie Wooster. Wodehouse structures this novel to echo that of a classic romance, with Jeeves and Wooster respectively taking on the roles of quarrelling lovers who experience a typical separation and final reconciliation. The ludicrously casted romance was a hit, and one reviewer wrote of the story ‘I am one of those who get a thorough laughing jag on Wodehouse and the more utterly absurd he is the better, say I. He's utterly utter in "Thank You, Jeeves"’ (Fanny Butcher). McIlvaine A51a.

Octavo. Original grey cloth, covers and spine lettered and stamped in red; original pictorial dust-jacket priced 7/6 (ends of spine panel a little frayed, chip to bottom edge of lower panel with some loss of lettering, a few repaired tears, light creases).
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