Bring on the Girls. The Improbable Story of Our Life in Musical Comedy, with Pictures to Prove it. WODEHOUSE, P. G., & Guy Bolton.

First UK edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his biographer and bibliographer, David A. Jasen, "To David all the best P. G. Wodehouse", on the front free endpaper. Jasen notes that the UK edition was "rewritten and contain[s] a more detailed section on the authors' life in musical comedy in England." David A. Jasen (1937-2022), ragtime scholar, performer, and a leading Wodehouse authority, shared a passion for music with the prolific humourist who was also famed during his lifetime as a musical lyricist. Jasen produced multiple groundbreaking publications on Wodehouse, and his personal bond with the author was immortalized when Jasen became the dedicatee of Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963). Wodehouse and Bolton were lifelong friends and collaborators, regularly adapting each other's work. Notable examples of Wodehouse's adaptations of Bolton's plays include French Leave (1955) and The Small Bachelor (1927). Jasen 74a; McIlvaine A75b. Octavo. With 8 double-sided half-tone photographic plates. Original red boards, spine lettered in gilt, publisher's device to rear board in blind. With dust jacket. Extremities bumped, a couple of marks to edges, partial split to rear inner hinge, nick to head of half-title and title; jacket spine with mild fading and a small puncture, a little rubbing and a handful of small chips and closed tears, unclipped: a very good copy in like jacket.