$400
Estimate: $800 - $1,200
P.G. Wodehouse Collection of William Toplis
Auction: May 7, 2020 11:00:00 AM EDT
7/19/1941. Advertising poster for Wodehouse's article featured in the Saturday Evening Post. 29 1/2 x 41 1/2 in. (74.9 x 105.4cm). In frame. McIlvaine D59.136.
Original poster advertising Wodehouse's July 19, 1941 article in the Saturday Evening Post, "My War With Germany," describing his life in a Nazi internment camp in Tost, Upper Silesia (now Poland). Wodehouse's article appeared just at the beginning of the public backlash that followed his series of broadcasts on German radio during the previous month.