Bindle: Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle by Herbert Jenkins 1919 Hardcover

Bindle: Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle

by Herbert Jenkins 1919 Hardcover

Herbert's first collection of humorous stories about the Cockney character Joseph Bindle.........Herbert George Jenkins (1876 8 June 1923) was a British writer and the owner of the publishing company Herbert Jenkins Ltd, which published many of P. G. Wodehouse's novels. BiographyJenkins' parents came from Norfolk and, according to his obituary in The Times, he was educated at Greyfriars College. He began work as a journalist and then spent some 11 years at The Bodley Head before founding his own publishing house in 1912. He remained unmarried and died at the age of 47, on 8 June 1923 after a six-month-long illness,in Marylebone, London. 

His most popular fictional creation was Mr. Joseph Bindle, who first appeared in a humorous novel in 1916 and in a number of sequels. In the preface to the books, T. P. O'Connor said that "Bindle is the greatest Cockney that has come into being through the medium of literature since Dickens wrote Pickwick Papers".The stories are based on the comedic drama of life at work, at home and all the adventures that take place along the way.

Binding: Hard

Book Condition: Intact but worn with damage at the top of the spine and old water damage in the inside back cover. Previous owner's name inside (my mother-in-law), with the farm name from the Eastern Cape Westondale and dated 1921.

Edition: MCMXIX

Pages: 318

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