The Clicking Of Cuthbert
by Wodehouse, P G
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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The Clicking of Cuthbert
by WODEHOUSE, P. G.
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London: Herbert Jenkins, 1951. Boundi in orange cloth, stamped in black. This is an early reprint of this now classic book of golfing short stories. In a nice dust jacket (price of 5' present) that shows a bit of scuffing to extremes. The fourteenth prniting. 256 pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good ++/Very… Read more about this item Item Price
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London: Herbert Jenkins, 1926. Early printing of this classic collection of short stories. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To James Douglas With the author's compliments P.G. Wodehouse June 4 1926." Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition. Jacket illustration by C. Morse. Uncommon… Read more about this item Item Price
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London: Herbert Jenkins, 1922. 8vo, pp. 256. Original green boards, lettered in black to front panel and spine, publisher's device in black to rear panel. Binding a little shaken, small ownership name to front free panel. First edition, first issue, with eight titles to verso of half-title. A well-preserved copy of ten golf-related short stories, published… Read more about this item Item Price
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by P. G. Wodehouse
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by P G Wodehouse
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London: Herbert Jenkins, n.d. (?1922). 1st. hardback. Fair, Green cloth boards, missing d/j, black titling/design cover and spine, text block firm (but front gutter loose with ffep missing; back gutter detached); pages unmarked.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). The Clicking of Cuthbert is a collection of ten short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, all with… Read more about this item Item Price
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by P G Wodehouse
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Herbert Jenkins, 1956. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1956. First Edition Thus. 174 pages. Illustrated dustjacket over green cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Pen inscription to front endpaper. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Book has forward lean. Clipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Jacket has moderate tanning. Item Price
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London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1922. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus. 8vo. 256] pp. The first of Wodehouse's collections of golf stories, the pinnacle of links literature. Some soiling and wear to the boards. Clean inside.
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The Clicking of Cuthbert
by Wodehouse, P.G.
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[Stamford]: Classics of Golf, 1986. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. 239pp. Very good hardback bound in publisher's green cloth and issued without a jacket.
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London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1922. [Humour] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Recently bound in green half morocco, with gilt titles and raised bands to spine, and publisher's illustrated green cloth covers over boards. All edges lightly trimmed. A crisp, clean copy in an attractive new leather binding. One of Plum's popular golfing capers. Item Price
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THE CLICKING OF CUTHBERT
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London: Herbert Jenkins, 1926. Pp. 256; cr. 8vo; pictorial green cloth, lettered and decorated in darker green, lightly soiled and worn, the fore-corners and bottom edge of lower board lightly bruised, fore-edge of upper board frayed at a couple of points, the spine lightly faded; hinges cracking, free endpapers slightly offset, scattered light foxing and occasional slight soiling; Herbert… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Clicking of Cuthbert
by P.G. Wodehouse
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UK: Herbert Jenkins, 1922. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The Clicking of Cuthbert by P.G. Wodehouse First Edition Herbert Jenkins 1922. A fine copy that has no inscriptions or signs of previous ownership. Contents are clean throughout and covers are completely unblemished. In original bright (and remarkably well preserved) near fine dust jacket that has no… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Clicking of Cuthbert.
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London, Herbert Jenkins, 1922. . First edition, first impression; 8vo; some offsetting to endpapers, a few early pages nicked at fore-edge, else unmarked internally; publisher's green pictorial cloth, lettered and stamped in dark green, light wear to extremities, with the original pictorial dustjacket, light soiling and a few stains, a few small tears or chips, that to head of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Clicking of Cuthbert
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Classics of Golf. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 0940889102 . No DJ; very light wear corners and tips of spine; piece (3/4 x 1 3/4") torn from top front pastedown; small dent side edge of front board; scribble mark on bottom fore-edge ; Height: 9 Inches, Length: 6 Inches, Weight: 2 Pounds, Width: 1.5… Read more about this item Item Price
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The clicking of Cuthbert
by Wodehouse, P.G. (Pelham Grenville) (1881-1975)
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London : H. Jenkins, 1925. 7th Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Series: A Herbert Jenkins book. Physical description: 256 pages ; 20cm. Notes: Suggested date of publication. Subjects: English fiction. Item Price
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