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The Clicking of Cuthbert
by Wodehouse, P. G
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Herbert Jenkins, London, No date. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fair/No Dust Jacket. Green coloured cloth covered boards with black coloured decoration and titles on the front panel and backstrip. 10 short stories by this author, first published in 1922, with an over arcing theme of golf. Softening , rubbing and a little fraying of the backstrip edges; bumping and fraying of the book corners with the underlying board visible to the lower book corners. Cocking of the spine. Stains, rubs and marks to the book panels with sunning to the backstrip. Tanning and foxing of the text block edges and age toning and foxing of the pages. Offset tanning and faint foxing to the end pages with heavier foxing to the first few and last few pages of the book. The front hinge has cracked between the free front end page and half title page, and the rear end pages, with the underlying webbing visible; a previous owner has placed tape on the hinge to support it. Previous owners name to the free front end page; and, original bookseller's sticker to the lower right-hand corner of the front paste-down. Ninth Printing. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [7], VIII, [2], 13 - 256 pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Short Stories; Golf; Inventory No: 0130418. .
Synopsis
From the book:This book marks an epoch in my literary career. It is written in blood. It is the outpouring of a soul as deeply seared by Fate's unkindness as the pretty on the dog-leg hole of the second nine was ever seared by my iron. It is the work of a very nearly desperate man, an eighteen-handicap man who has got to look extremely slippy if he doesn't want to find himself in the twenties again. As a writer of light fiction, I have always till now been handicapped by the fact that my disposition was cheerful, my heart intact, and my life unsoured. Handicapped, I say, because the public likes to feel that a writer of farcical stories is piquantly miserable in his private life, and that, if he turns out anything amusing, he does it simply in order to obtain relief from the almost insupportable weight of an existence which he has long since realized to be a wash-out. Well, today I am just like that. Two years ago, I admit, I was a shallow farceur. My work lacked depth. I wrote flippantly simply because I was having a thoroughly good time. Then I took up golf, and now I can smile through the tears and laugh, like Figaro, that I may not weep, and generally hold my head up and feel that I am entitled to respect.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0130418
- Title
- The Clicking of Cuthbert
- Author
- Wodehouse, P. G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Herbert Jenkins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- No date
- Keywords
- BZDB2 P. G. Wodehouse, Short stories, golf Literature & Literary; Short Stories; Golf; Unbranded Wodehouse, P. G. The Clicking of Cuthbert
- Bookseller catalogs
- Short Stories;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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