Spring Fever. WODEHOUSE, P. G.

First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his biographer and bibliographer, David A. Jasen, "To David from Plum, P. G. Wodehouse", to 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). Wodehouse had originally written the story as a play for the American actor Edward Everett Horton. When that deal fell through, he reworked it as a novel which sets much of the drama in a close approximation of Hever Castle, in Kent. This edition was published simultaneously with the US edition. Jasen 66; McIlvaine A67b. Octavo. Original orange cloth, spine and front cover lettered in black, publisher's device to spine and rear cover in black. With dust jacket. Bookseller's sticker to front pastedown. Spine ends gently bumped, one or two spots to lower edge; jacket lightly rubbed but bright, a few small chips, front flap clipped, retaining later price: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.