Up for sale are six standalone novels, written by P. G. Wodehouse and published by Overlook Press, with original cover illustrations by Andrzej Klimowski. All titles include their original dust jackets, and are Overlook first editions. Titles, and their *original* publication dates (not when Overlook reprinted them), include:
- The Girl on the Boat (1922)
- Quick Service (1940)
- Money in the Bank (1942)
- Spring Fever (1948)
- Something Fishy (1957)
- Do Butlers Burgle Banks? (1968)
Condition: Very good. May include minor blemishes, including a tiny rip in a DJ or a smudge. See pictures for details.
Publisher: Overlook Press (US). These were simultaneously printed in the UK by Everyman’s Library in a joint creative effort.
About the Collector's Wodehouse Series: The Collector's Wodehouse, now complete, is the first full hardback series of Wodehouse's works by any one publisher. In every case, the editor has gone back to the first edition of each book and corrected errors that had crept into the innumerable paperback editions. Each book has been re-typeset using that classic English typeface, Caslon. Further, these are printed on acid-free paper, are sewn and bound in full cloth, and have jacket art by the superb Andrzej Klimowski.
About the author: P.G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) spent much of his life in Southampton, New York, but was born in England and educated in Surrey. His roots were in England and his youth had been spent there: prep schools, Dulwich College, a spell in a bank, and years of freelancing as a journalist, novelist, short-story writer, lyricist, and playwright. He gained his dual citizenship in 1955 and lived more years of his life in America than he did in England. In a literary career spanning more than seventy years, he wrote more than ninety books, twenty film scripts, and collaborated on more than thirty plays and musical comedies. An expert humorist and a master of light verse, Sir Pelham Wodehouse died of a heart attack on St. Valentine’s Day 1975 at the age of ninety-three.