WODEHOUSE, P.G. (author). The Clicking of Cuthbert. London Herbert Jenkins Limited. 1922

8vo.; original sage-green pebble-grain cloth pictorially decorated and lettered in darker green to spine and upper board; pp. [vii], viii, [ix-x], 11-256; a lovely copy with some fading and rubbing to spine and minute wear, and very slight turning, to forecorner tips, with a handful of small fox-spots to fore-edge of book block, internally generally very clean and sound with a touch of localised speckling to first and final leaves and one 1cm circular and diffuse brown mark to fore-edge margin of 2 leaves, without the rare pictorial dustwrapper; scarce in bright condition.

First edition. An early Wodehouse title, being only his sixth collection of short stories. It is a compilation of ten humorous tales themed around golf, and is his first book with a golfing theme. It appeared in the United States two years later when it was re-titled “Gold Without Tears” with slight editorial changes to suit the readership. These were alterations of names of characters, places, and famous golfers. The first story introduces the character of ‘The Oldest Member’, who narrates all but the final tale here, and who reappears several more times in later books.