Psmith in the City. A Sequel to "Mike". WODEHOUSE, P. G.

First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his biographer and bibliographer, David A. Jasen, "To David all the best, from Plum, P. G. Wodehouse", on the front free endpaper. 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 acknowledged that only Wodehouse's close friends and family knew him as "Plum", and his personal bond with the author was immortalized when Jasen became the dedicatee of Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963). Psmith in the City continues the adventures of the cricket-loving Mike Jackson and his monocle-sporting friend Psmith, who had both been introduced in Mike the previous year. Psmith has endured as one of Wodehouse's most memorable characters, "unstoppably talkative, with a splendid conversational line in mandarin orotundity" (ODNB). Jasen 14; McIlvaine A14a. Octavo. Monochrome frontispiece and 11 plates, all by T. M. R. Whitwell. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt, black, white, and yellow. Spine ends frayed, corners worn, cloth a little rubbed, foxing to contents, damp stain to upper outer corner, not affecting text. A very good copy.