Wodehouse on Golf
Author: Pelham Grenville "P G" Wodehouse (1881-1975)
Year: 1940
Publisher: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc
Place: New York
Description:
844 pages. Octavo (8" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's green cloth with black lettering to spine and pictorial cover in original pictorial jacket. (APG: 71a) First edition.
Here in one hilarious volume are all of Wodehouse's classics on the strange game of golf. No true golfer, and certainly no Wodehouse fan, can resist this collection. The table of cents is like the roll call at a class reunion; all the old faces are there, and whether you have read the stories before or not, the laugh aver is high, even for the old master. Himself an inveterate devotee of tee and green, Wodehouse better than any other living writer plumbs the depths of the golfer's soul. None of the humor and pathos of the great game escape Wodehouse's brilliant and satirical pen. Here is a golfer's masterpiece, and a treasure house of laughs, even for those who don't know a driver from a mashie.
Condition:
Volume with spine and edges a bit rubbed, gift inscription on front free endpaper, dated Dec. 25 '40. Jacket with small piece missing to spine head, tears, spine sunned, light wear; very good in like jacket.
Year: 1940
Publisher: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc
Place: New York
Description:
844 pages. Octavo (8" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's green cloth with black lettering to spine and pictorial cover in original pictorial jacket. (APG: 71a) First edition.
Here in one hilarious volume are all of Wodehouse's classics on the strange game of golf. No true golfer, and certainly no Wodehouse fan, can resist this collection. The table of cents is like the roll call at a class reunion; all the old faces are there, and whether you have read the stories before or not, the laugh aver is high, even for the old master. Himself an inveterate devotee of tee and green, Wodehouse better than any other living writer plumbs the depths of the golfer's soul. None of the humor and pathos of the great game escape Wodehouse's brilliant and satirical pen. Here is a golfer's masterpiece, and a treasure house of laughs, even for those who don't know a driver from a mashie.
Condition:
Volume with spine and edges a bit rubbed, gift inscription on front free endpaper, dated Dec. 25 '40. Jacket with small piece missing to spine head, tears, spine sunned, light wear; very good in like jacket.
