Bachelors Anonymous

Author: Pelham Grenville "P G" Wodehouse (1881-1975)Year: 1973Publisher: Barrie and Jenkins LtdPlace: LondonDescription:191 pages. Octavo (8" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine in a original pictorial dust jacket on white background. (APG: 113a) First edition.Ivor Llewelly, that much married founder and dynamo for the Superba-Llewellyn Studio in Hollywood, is the sixth time a bachelor. His record has established him as only a modest conversationalist where the fair sex is concerned, and his tireless gambit when the small talk lulls is a proposal of marriage. His friends at Bachelors Anonymous are forced therefore to view with great alarm his proposed trip to London. First they arrange for a body-guard and then they send reinforcements in the person of Ephraim Trout, lawyer and long-time friend of the reckless I.L. Joe Pickering, playwright, bodyguard and himself helpless in love with Sally Fitch, the prettiest journalist in London, is doing