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any rate reads his Wodehouse in the proper careful spirit”, and concerns typographical errors in an unspecified work. Writing a year before the publication of this title, Wodehouse indicates his plans for a “companion” to his 1922 golfing anthology, The Clicking of Cuthbert , which would go on to become The Heart of a Goof . Octavo. Original green cloth, spine and boards lettered in black, golfers blocked to front board and publisher’s motif to rear in black. Rubbing to extremities, spine toned, edges toned and foxed, inner hinge at half-title cracked but holding firm, offsetting to preliminary and end matter, a very good copy with contents clean. ¶ Jasen 37. £1,250 [157382] 160 WOLFE, Tom. The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine- Flake Streamline Baby. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965 “verdict: excellent book by a genius who will do anything to attract attention” – vonnegut First edition of the author’s first book, with a rare galley proof of an omitted chapter entitled “Therapy and Corned Beef While You Wait” loosely inserted. A pencil annotation on the upper margin reads “Omitted from Book, better than 4/5 of the stuff in the book!”. Octavo. Original white cloth, spine lettered in gilt and ruled in yellow, front cover lettered and decorated in gilt on yellow ground, orange endpapers, top edge yellow. With dust jacket. 18 pp wire-stitched galley proof loosely inserted. Covers and edges lightly foxed. A near-fine copy in like jacket, top edges a touch creased, faint offsetting to flaps, sharp and clean. £1,000 [158470]
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