BIRNEY EARLE

Turvey: A Military Picaresque

McClelland & Stewart, 1966. Mass Market Paperback. Mass Market in Very Good+ condition. A sound binding with bright, unmarked pages. Light age tanning, spine browning and a faint number written on the top of the front cover. "Private Thomas Leadbeater Turvey is nobody’s idea of a capable recruit. Shifted from regimental pillar to post, Turvey tries and fails at every odd job in the army with a remarkable genius for mishap. A casualty before he has a chance to see action, Turvey watches the maimed and dying return from the front; thus Earle Birney’s comic masterpiece becomes an unforgettable indictment of war. "; New Canadian Library; Vol. 34; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 286 pages. Very Good .

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Book number: 26833

Catalogue: Fiction, Canada, Humour, Military

Keywords: Canada > Fiction Humor Military

EDGERTON CLYDE

Red Eye a Western

Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books Of Chapel Hill, 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover. ISBN: 1565120604. Red hard boards with black cloth spine / gilt lettering on spine. Small bump on bottom front corner & remainder mark on bottom edge. Very clean & tightly bound. DJ unclipped with minor edgewear. "Hang on to your ten-gallon hats--Clyde Edgerton has taken his eye for detail, ear for humor, and nose for the odor of religious hypocrisy to the Wild West, where a motley crew of innocents and scoundrels, visionaries and vultures tells us "How the West Was Made Safe for Free Enterprise". ; Remainder; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 244 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 2043

Catalogue: Fiction, Humour

Keywords: 1565120604 Frontier & Pioneer Life Fiction Humour & Satire

JAMES SIBYL

Adventures of Stout Mama

Watsonville, Cali.: Papier MacHe, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0918949343. Green cloth covers with gilt titles to the spine. In Fine condition, tightly bound with an unmarked text. The DJ is unclipped, Very Good+ condition. "A collection of short essays about Stout Mama, an eclectic feminist in her forties and a "bewildered techno-peasant". Engaging and droll, Stout Mama is more interested in honesty and good times than in consumerism in the modern age." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 131 pages. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 13305

Catalogue: Fiction, Humour, Short Storeis

Keywords: 0918949343 Fiction Humour & Satire Short Stories

SEDARIS, DAVID

When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Little, Brown and Company, 2008. Hardcover. ISBN: 0316143472. Black / tan hard boards with black titles to the spine. In As New condition, looks unread. First Edition, First Printing, (Number Line). The DJ is unclipped with very light shelf wear, Fine. "In essay after essay, Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life to the most deeply resonant human truths. Culminating in a brilliant account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, his sixth essay collection is a new masterpiece of comic writing." ; 1.4 x 8.3 x 5.7 Inches; 323 pages. As New in As New dust jacket .

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Book number: 9523

Catalogue: Fiction, Humour

Keywords: 0316143472 Literary Collections Essays American Fiction Humour & Satire

THOMAS, D. M.

Lady with a Laptop

Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0786703083. A blue hardcover with tan/red cloth spine covering. In Near Fine condition with a solid binding and a bright, unmarked text. Light spine end bumping. The DJ is unclipped, Very Good with a tear along the front spine hinge and a small tear to the spine end top. "From the author of The White Hotel comes a delicious comic novel of the writing life. Simon, a second rate novelist, is invited to the Greek isle of Skagathos to teach overly enthusiastic would-be writers who have as much chance of publishing as Simon has of winning the Booker Prize. Thomas takes these characters and fashions a comedy of manners for our time." ; 9.10 X 6.30 X 1 inches; 246 pages. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 19630

Catalogue: Fiction, Humour, Authors

Keywords: 0786703083 Authors Fiction Humour & Satire

WARD, NORMAN

Her Majesty's Mice

McClelland and Stewart, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0771088248. First Edition. Bright red hardcovers, gilt titles to the spine. In Fine condition tightly bound, with bright, & unmarked pages. The DJ is unclipped, in Very Good condition with cover rubbing and edgewear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 139 pages. Fine in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 27405

Catalogue: Canadian Writers, Short Stories, Fiction, Humour

Keywords: 0771088248 Canada > Fiction Short Stories Canadian Authors Humour Fiction Canada Humour & Satire Short Stories