P.G. Wodehouse Collection of William Toplis (1665) Lot

P.G. Wodehouse Collection of William Toplis (1665) May 7, 2020 EDT, ONLINE ONLY Lot 152

Estimate: $600 - $900 (plus Buyer's Premium) [Wodehouse, P.G.] Group of 35 Items By or Related to P.G. Wodehouse in the Theatre Locations vary, 1911-85. In 35 pieces. Size and condition varies. Includes: 1. Wodehouse, P.G. and Ian Hay Baa, Baa, Black Sheep London and New York, 1930. Text of play. 2. Wodehouse, P.G. and Ian Hay Baa, Baa, Black Sheep London and New York, 1930. Text of play. (another copy). 3. Wodehouse, P.G. and Ian Hay Baa, Baa, Black Sheep London and New York, 1930. Text of play. Book-plate on verso of front wrapper. (another copy). 4. Wodehouse, P.G. and Ian Hay Baa, Baa, Black Sheep London, 1929. Program for production at the New Theatre. 5. Wodehouse, P.G., and Jerome Kern, and George Grossmith The Beauty Prize (London, 1923). Vocal score. 6. Wodehouse, P.G. Candle- Light New York, etc., (1934). Text of play. Adapted from Siegfried Geyer’s Kleine Komödie (1927). 7. Wodehouse, P.G. Candle-Light New York, etc., (1934). Text of play. Adapted from Siegfried Geyer’s Kleine Komödie (1927). Scattered marginalia in pencil. (another copy). 8. Wodehouse, P.G., and Ian Hay A Damsel in Distress London and New York, (1930). Text of play. “Made in England” rubber-stamped on title-page. 9. Wodehouse, P.G., and Ian Hay A Damsel in Distress London and New York, (1930). Text of play. (another copy, front wrapper very slightly different). 10. Wodehouse, P.G., and Ian Hay A Damsel in Distress London and New York, (1930). Text of play. Scattered marginalia in pencil. Book-plate on verso of front wrapper. (another copy, front wrapper very slightly different from both copies above). 11. Wodehouse, P.G., and John Stapleton A Gentleman of Leisure No place, no date (ca. 1911). Advertising card. Author and Wodehouse collector David A. Jasen’s copy which can be seen in his book, The Theatre of P. G. Wodehouse (1979), page 20. 12. Wodehouse, P.G. Good Morning, Bill! (London), 1927. Program from opening night, at the Duke of York’s Theatre, November 28, 1927. 13. Wodehouse, P.G. Good Morning, Bill! (London, 1927). Program from the Duke of York’s Theatre, printed December 14, 1927. 14. Wodehouse, P.G. Good Morning, Bill! London, April 16, (1934). Program from the Saville Theatre. The literature tells us that the revival of Good Morning, Bill! opened at the Daly Theatre on March 20, 1934. The existence of this program, dated on weeks later casts doubt on that notion. 15. Marischka, Ernst, and Bruno Granichstadten Hearts and Diamonds London, 1926. Program for its only production, at the Strand Theatre. It ran for only 46 performances. Adapted into English by Wodehouse and Laurie Wylie. 16. [Deval, Jacques], Wodehouse, P.G., and Valerie Wyngate (adaptation) Her Cardboard Lover Newark, March, 1927. Brochure for a production at the Broad Street Theatre, in New Jersey, which opened on March 14th then ran for one week before moving to Broadway, opening at the Empire Theatre on March 21, 1927 and running for 152 performances. 17. [Deval, Jacques], Wodehouse, P.G., and Valerie Wyngate (adaptation) Her Cardboard Lover London, no date (ca. 1928). Program from the London production which opened on August, 21, 1928 at the Lyric Theatre. 18. Wodehouse, P.G. The Inside Stand London, December 23, 1935. Program from the Saville Theatre. 19. Ayckbourn, Alan, and Andrew Lloyd Webber Jeeves No place, (1975). Program for a production at Her Majesty’s Theatre. 20. Wodehouse, P.G. Jeeves Takes Charge Washington, D.C., (1984). Advertisement for the production at the Ford’s Theatre. 21. Wodehouse, P.G. Jeeves Takes Charge London, September 30, 1980. Opening night program for the production at the Fortune Theatre. Signed by E.S. Cazalet, Wodehouse’s step-grandson, whose appreciation of Wodehouse is printed here. 22. Wodehouse, P.G. Joy in the Morning No place, no date. Photocopied typescript for possibly the only production of this play. Approximately 83 pp. (some misnumbered, some repeated, not collated). Roderick Easdale, in The Novel Life of PG Wodehouse (2004), wrote “…the script of…Joy in the Morning…was originally called Phipps and is the play from which [the novel] The Old Reliable (1951) was written, and has no connection with the…novel of the same name…” With licence stamp on cover from the Lord Chamberlain’s Office, dated 1954, for the amateur theater group, The Buckfast Players to be performed at their Studio Theatre in Ashburton in Devon. 23. Wodehouse, P.G., and Ian Hay Leave it to Psmith London, September 15, 1930. Program for the production at the Golders Green Hippodrome, preceding the West End production at the Shaftesbury Theatre, which opened on September 27. 24. Wodehouse, P.G., and Ian Hay Leave it to Psmith London, September 22, 1930. Program for the production at the Streatham Hill Theatre, preceding the West End production at the Shaftesbury Theatre, which opened on September 27. 25. Wodehouse, P.G., and Ian Hay Leave it to Psmith London, December 8, 1930. Program for the production at the Shaftesbury Theatre, which opened on September 27. 26. Wodehouse, P.G., and Ian Hay Leave it to Psmith London and New York, 1932. First English edition in wrappers. Text of play. Signed by multiple members of the cast of an unknown production of the play. McIlvaine C6a. 27. Wodehouse, P.G., and C.H. Bovill Nuts and Wine London, 1914. Program for its only production, at The Empire Theatre. It ran for only seven performances. 28. [Molnar, Ferenc] Wodehouse, P.G. (adaptation) The Play’s the Thing New York: November 15, 1926. Program from the first production, at Henry Miller’s Theatre, which opened on November 3, 1926. 29. [Molnar, Ferenc] Wodehouse, P.G. (adaptation) The Play’s the Thing New York: Brentano’s, (1927). Text of play. In dust-jacket. 30. [Molnar, Ferenc] Wodehouse, P.G. (adaptation) The Play’s the Thing New York, etc., (ca. 1953). Text of play. 31. [Molnar, Ferenc] Wodehouse, P.G. (adaptation) The Play’s the Thing New York, etc., no date (modern, includes an ISBN number). Text of play. Staple bound. (another copy). 32. [Molnar, Ferenc] Wodehouse, P.G. (adaptation) The Play’s the Thing New York, etc., no date (modern, includes an ISBN number). Text of play. Perfect bound. 33. [Molnar, Ferenc] Wodehouse, P.G. (adaptation) The Play’s the Thing New York, etc., no date (modern, includes an ISBN number). Text of play. Perfect bound. 34. [Wodehouse, P.G.] Weil, Robert, and Bruce Levine Ilona: A Musical New York, 1985. Script. Based on The Play’s the Thing. 35. [Bledsoe, Jules] Show Boat Vintage photograph of Jules Bledsoe as Joe in the original stage production of Show Boat, circa 1927. Blind stamp of photographer [Ben] Pinchot, New York, lower right.