$150
Estimate: $300 - $500
P.G. Wodehouse Collection of William Toplis
Auction: May 7, 2020 11:00:00 AM EDT
Locations vary, 1907-2004. In 23 pieces. Size and condition varies. Includes: 1. Adler, Marjorie Duhan Too Much Springtime: A Comedy in Three Acts Chicago, (1955). Printed play. Based on Wodehouse’s novel, The Mating Season. 2. Bolton, Guy A Man and His Wife No place, no date (ca. 1970). Typescript for play with relevant ephemera laid in. No known connection to Wodehouse. 3. Bolton, Guy Three Blind Mice Chicago, (1958). Printed play. Wodehouse borrowed the plot from this play for his novel, French Leave. 4. Bolton, Guy, et al. Very Good Eddie New York, 1916. Vocal score for the play that drew Bolton, Wodehouse and Jerome Kern together. They would ultimately collaborate on nine shows together. 5. Bolton, Guy, et al. Very Good Eddie London, 1976. Theater program for revival. 6. Caldwell, Anne, and Hugo Felix Pom Pom New York, 1916. Four individual pieces of sheet music for the songs Evelyn (two copies), Pom Pom, and In the Dark. Wodehouse is rumored to have been called in to “doctor” the show but no proof exists. 7. Caryll, Ivan, and Lionel Monckton The Girls of Gottenberg London, etc. 1907. Vocal score. Wodehouse wrote the song “Our Little Way” which may have been in the show. Caryll would later work with him, writing the music for The Girl Behind the Gun (1918) (UK title, Kissing Time, [1919]) and The Canary (1918). 8. Davis, Lee Bolton and Wodehouse and Kern: The Men Who Made Musical Comedy New York, (1993). First edition. 9. Day, Barry (editor) The Complete Lyrics of P. G. Wodehouse Lanham, Maryland, etc., 2004. First edition. 10. Graham, Harry By Candle Light London, no date (1950s). Printed play. Adapted from Siegfried Geyer’s Kleine Komödie (1927). In 1930 Wodehouse also adapted Geyer’s play, as Candle-light. 11. Green, Stanley The World of Musical Comedy: The Story of the American Musical Stage as Told Through the Careers of its Foremost Composers and Lyricists. Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged (New York, no date). Not in McIlvaine 12. Hay, Ian, and J. Hartley Manners, et al. Getting Together New York, 1918. Co-writer, J. Hartley Manners’ copy of a bound typescript with emendations in an unknown hand. Pages from the published program as well as several original 8 x 10 prints of the production bound in. Hay later worked with Wodehouse on the dramatizations of A Damsel in Distress (1928), Baa, Baa, Black Sheep (1929), and Leave it to Psmith (1930). 13. Jasen, David A. The Theatre of P. G. Wodehouse London, (1979). First edition. McIlvaine H28 14. Molnar, Ferenc Romantic Comedies, Eight Plays by Ferenc Molnar New York, (1952). Includes two plays with English texts by Wodehouse. Not in McIlvaine 15. Trewin, J.C. (editor) Plays of the Year, 1948-49 London, (1949). First edition. Includes Don’t Listen, Ladies! by Wodehouse (as Stephen Powys) and Guy Bolton. Dust-jacket wanting. Not in McIlvaine 16. Wodehouse, P.G. Four Plays London, (1983). First edition. Black cloth. McIlvaine B27 17. Wodehouse, P.G. Four Plays London, (1983). First edition. Wrappers. McIlvaine B27 18. Wodehouse, P.G., and Guy Bolton Bring on the Girls! The Improbable Story of Our Life in Musical Comedy, with Pictures to Prove it New York, 1953. First edition. McIlvaine A75a 19. Wodehouse, P.G., and Guy Bolton Bring on the Girls London, no date. Unrevised proof copy of first edition, printed date on cover: February 19th, 1954. Note no subtitle used. McIlvaine A75b 20. Wodehouse, P.G., and Guy Bolton Bring on the Girls: The Improbable Story of Our Life in Musical Comedy, with Pictures to Prove it London, (1954). First English edition. McIlvaine A75b.