Overlook Press, 2002. First edition thus. Cloth. Near fine/Very good +. First printing thus, near fine cloth hardcover shows moisture spotting to top page edges and some other very light trace wear, in very good + dust jacket that shows a touch of edgewear and rub spot at spine. 224 pages. Nice copy of this edition of the noted novel from the legendary author.

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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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Bookseller: Barker Books & Vintage (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 33001
Title: The Clicking of Cuthbert
Author: Wodehouse, P. G
Format/Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Used - Near fine
Jacket Condition: Very good +
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First edition thus
Binding: Hardback
ISBN 10: 1585672785
ISBN 13: 9781585672783
Publisher: Overlook Press
Place of Publication: Woodstock, Ny & New York
Date Published: 2002
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