INSCRIBED TO JOHN ARLOTT
Young Men in Spats
Jenkins, 1936.
First edition, first issue. 8vo. Green cloth lettered in black. In supplied pictorial dustwrapper, designed by Gilbert Wilkinson. Inscribed on the front endpaper, " To John Arlott with best wishes P.G. Wodehouse." A very good copy, some fading to the spine in a very good dustwrapper indeed.
John Arlott, poet, journalist and cricket broadcaster, who counted Dylan Thomas and John Betjeman as close personal friends, was an acquaintance of a good many contemporary novelists, including P.G. Wodehouse, whose writing he much admired. The pair corresponded throughout the 1950s and 60s whilst Wodehouse was living in America. This book was inscribed for Arlott when the two met in September 1965.
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