The Funny Bone
by Maclaren-Ross, J
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Bromsgrove, West Midlands, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Elek Books, 1956. First edition. Hard to find first hardback edition. No DW. Covers have some marks and bumping. Otherwise a good tight copy. 184 pages. Dedicated to Anthony Powell who immortalised the author as X Trapnel in 'A Dance To The Music Of Time'. Literary musings and parodies of Wodehouse, Chandler etc.The book ends with a poignant personal memoir of the poet Alun Lewis whose death in Burma in 1944 was for the first time in a national journal unequivocally declared to be suicide by Andrew Motion only on 12 June 2004. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- David Edward Hellawell (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 716
- Title
- The Funny Bone
- Author
- Maclaren-Ross, J
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Elek Books, 1956
- Keywords
- Humour; Parody; Literature; Satire; Sketches; Stories; QSE
Terms of Sale
David Edward Hellawell
I will refund the cost if the book is returned within 7 days with details of where the description was faulty.
About the Seller
David Edward Hellawell
Biblio member since 2007
Bromsgrove, West Midlands
About David Edward Hellawell
Professor Emeritus now selling off the stock of a lifetime.
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- First Edition
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- Tight
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