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WODEHOUSE, P.G. (1881-1975) -- GRAHAME, Kenneth (1859-1932). Pagan Papers. London & New York: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1898. 8° (193 x 117mm). (Small ink stain affecting top edge of half-title and title, a few leaves roughly opened.) Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine (extremities rubbed, spine tarnished, light browning to endpapers). Provenance: P.G. Wodehouse (early signature in black ink on front free endpaper, his pencilled marginalia on two pages and score-mark on a third).
WODEHOUSE'S COPY of the second English and first American edition. The young Wodehouse found the inspiration for at least two essays in Grahame's text, scoring a sentence in 'Cheap Knowledge' (p. 59) and noting: 'Text for Essay on "Notes" PGW', and marking a passage in the first paragraph of 'Justifiable Homicide' with the note: 'A text for Essay on "Relations". PGW'. The former was used as the heading for 'Notes' in Tales of St Austin's (1903, see previous lot), while the latter became the text for his essay 'Concerning Relations', published in Public School Magazine, March 1901, pp. 232-234. A scoremark to a passage in 'Aboard the Galley' (p. 169) suggests it was also being considered as the subject for a possible essay.
WODEHOUSE'S COPY of the second English and first American edition. The young Wodehouse found the inspiration for at least two essays in Grahame's text, scoring a sentence in 'Cheap Knowledge' (p. 59) and noting: 'Text for Essay on "Notes" PGW', and marking a passage in the first paragraph of 'Justifiable Homicide' with the note: 'A text for Essay on "Relations". PGW'. The former was used as the heading for 'Notes' in Tales of St Austin's (1903, see previous lot), while the latter became the text for his essay 'Concerning Relations', published in Public School Magazine, March 1901, pp. 232-234. A scoremark to a passage in 'Aboard the Galley' (p. 169) suggests it was also being considered as the subject for a possible essay.