ISBN: 9780770100629 - Me Among the Ruins (the Bandy Papers. Vol.3) (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: FINE+, Near New. First Collected Edition, PBO thus.. 424 pages. >>>> IT'S ME AGAIN = pages 7 thru 253 // 2 Books in One; with // ME AMONG THE RUINS = Pages 254-424; >>>> The COVERS do NOT reveal that this Volume has 2-Book-in-One, but if you check the Chapter Titles, you will see this Book contains both Volum-3 and Volume 4 in ONE Book; >> [Donald Jack is a winner of the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour]; Printed in UK for General Pub, for Canadian distribution! >> Nice Aerial battle cover! >>> WW-I Aviation fiction! >>> IT'S ME AGAIN = "Brigadier Soames doesn't know what hit him. Bandy has run him over in a staff car, stolen his piano and jumped on his prize peacock from 8000 feet. And he's carrying on with the Brigadier's wife. The adjutant doesn't like him either. Not only has Bandy countermanded his orders to have the coal painted white but he's requisitioned his magnificent private loo for the ultimate mess trophy. They both resort to aerial warfare, though not the sort that has brought Bandy such distinction in the skies over the Western Front. The Brigadier orders him to test lethal prototype parachutes and the adjutant blots Bandy's copy-book with a highly trained dive-bombing pigeon. And Bandy? He just emeges triumphantly from one disaster to lurch straight into the next, wearing that crazy, ever-broadening smile which annouces: It's Me Again!" >>> ME AMONG THE RUINS = "Russia didn't know what hit her; Canada knew only too well - they'd turned Bandy loose. After a career frightening Germans and allies alike on the Western Front, the wild colonial boy had gron even wilder, and as soon as he staggered off the boat at Halifax he started wreaking havoc and disaster at home. War hero or not, Bandy was shunned by decent society matrons after ruiining his reputation at Mrs Byrd-Kustard's and his riding boots at Mrs Capon's, and there was a sigh of relief audible from Klondike to St. John when he was recalled - to Russia."; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. ACHILLEOS Painted Cover Art. (illustrator). Book.…

Condition: Very Good. Paper Jacks, 1977. 1st Edition . Very Good. 12mo - over 6þ - 7þ" tall. PaperJacks Ltd. Pub., Markham, Ontario, Canada., 1977. Soft Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. ACHILLEOS Painted Cover Art. (illustrator). First Collected Edition, PBO thus! 12mo - over 6þ" - 7þ" Tall. 424 pages. >>> >> [Donald Jack is a winner of the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour]; Printed in UK for General Pub, for Canadian distribution! >> Nice Aerial battle cover! >>> WW-I Aviation fiction! "Brigadier Soames doesn't. Bandy has run him over in a staff car, stolen his piano and jumped on his prize peacock from 8000 feet. And he's carrying on with the Brigadier's wife. The adjutant doesn't like him either. Not only has Bandy countermanded his orders to have the coal painted white but he's requisitioned his magnificent private loo for the ultimate mess trophy. They both resort to aerial warfare, though not the sort that has brought Bandy such distinction in the skies over the Western Front. The Brigadier orders him to test lethal prototype parachutes and the adjutant blots Bandy's copy-book with a highly trained dive-bombing pigeon. And Bandy? He just emeges triumphantly from one disaster to lurch straight into the next, wearing that crazy, ever-broadening smile which annouces: It's Me Again!". 424 pp. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good.