WODEHOUSE, P. G. & Guy BOLTON. Bring on The Girls, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953. 8°, original publisher's cloth-backed boards, lettered in dark green (a little faded, without dust-jacket). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on endpaper in ink: "To Billy, Best Wishes, P.G.". McIlvaine A75a.

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From the Library of "Billy" Griffith The following 3 lots are inscribed by P. G. Wodehouse to the cricketer "Billy" Griffith, D.F.C., C.B.E. (1914-93). Griffith was educated at Dulwich College and Pembroke College, Cambridge. His lifelong friendship with Wodehouse began at Dulwich, where he excelled in games of all sorts, and played in the first eleven for four years. As a Cambridge blue, he toured Australia with MCC's "goodwill" team in 1935/36. Having served as a glider pilot and reached the rank of lieutenant-colonel during the war, he kept wicket against Australia in the five "Victory" tests of 1945. He captained Sussex in 1946, was Secretary to the County Club from 1946 to 1950, and toured the West Indies with the MCC in 1947/48, hitting his maiden century in Test cricket in Port of Spain. In South Africa, 1948/49, he kept wicket well enough to replace Godfrey Evans in two Tests. Between 1962 and 1974 he was Secretary of the MCC, and its President from 1979 to 1980.

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WODEHOUSE, P. G. & Guy BOLTON. Bring on The Girls, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953. 8°, original publisher's cloth-backed boards, lettered in dark green (a little faded, without dust-jacket). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on endpaper in ink: "To Billy, Best Wishes, P.G.". McIlvaine A75a.

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