Title: The Swoop! or, How Clarence Saved England. A Tale of the Great Invasion Author: Wodehouse, P. G. Place: London Publisher: Alston Rivers, Ltd. Date: 1909 Description: 126 pp. Illustrated with humorous drawings by C. Harrison 7x4¾, original pictorial wrappers, spine rebacked with archival paper and original spine strip laid on. First Edition. Rare first edition of Wodehouse's eleventh book and who's first book, The Pothunters, was published only seven year's earlier. Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881-1975), English comic novelist, best known for the Jeeves and Wooster series, also worked with Cole Porter on the 1930's musical Anything Goes. Many consider Wodehouse second only to Charles Dickens in "fecundity of character invention" - see Wikipedia Encyclopedia; BM 27: 386 (1004); McIlvaine A11. Lot Amendments Condition: Some chipping and other wear to slightly leaning spine, mild toning and rubbing; else good to very good. Item number: 152470
Title: The Swoop! or, How Clarence Saved England. A Tale of the Great Invasion Author: Wodehouse, P. G. Place: London Publisher: Alston Rivers, Ltd. Date: 1909 Description: 126 pp. Illustrated with humorous drawings by C. Harrison 7x4¾, original pictorial wrappers, spine rebacked with archival paper and original spine strip laid on. First Edition. Rare first edition of Wodehouse's eleventh book and who's first book, The Pothunters, was published only seven year's earlier. Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881-1975), English comic novelist, best known for the Jeeves and Wooster series, also worked with Cole Porter on the 1930's musical Anything Goes. Many consider Wodehouse second only to Charles Dickens in "fecundity of character invention" - see Wikipedia Encyclopedia; BM 27: 386 (1004); McIlvaine A11. Lot Amendments Condition: Some chipping and other wear to slightly leaning spine, mild toning and rubbing; else good to very good. Item number: 152470
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