WODEHOUSE, P.G. — The Small Bachelor

May Fair 1934 First aperback edition 192 p. SOFTCOVER: (Orig. paperback. spine ends bit frayed, pages yelloewing, front cover slightly detached, binding very firm). VERY GOOD) The Small Bachelor is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 28 April 1927 by Methuen & Co., London, and in the United States on 17 June 1927 by George H. Doran, New York. It is based upon Wodehouse and Guy Bolton's book for the 1918 musical Oh, Lady! Lady!!. Set during Prohibition, the story tells of the romantic troubles of George Finch, a short-statured would-be artist living in New York's Greenwich Village. George falls in love with Molly Waddington but faces opposition from her socially ambitious step-mother, who wants Molly to marry an English lord.