Tippy Locklin by Joseph Meagher (14 results)

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Joseph William Meagher's Tippy Locklin is a magical and wildly funny re-creation of a Brooklyn boyhood in the 1920s. As Richard Sullivan in The New York Times Book Review observed, it is a novel "so loaded with warm, hearty people, so charged with honest, affectionate fun that in final effect it is a small celebration of the very goodness of being alive." For what Tippy's world instills in him is "a belief that all is intrinsically well and that the world is not a jungle of broken glass but a well-ordered place where things go wrong and people misbehave, but whose foundation is strong and indestructible." The characters in Tippy's world are memorable. Especially notable is his neighbor, Mr. Duffy the cabdriver, wondrously tattooed with a motto of his own composition: "For God, Country, Mother and Girl Friend." Mr. Duffy has an enormous wife ("Lousy cook, but the strongest woman you ever saw"), a lady addicted to sitting down. Early on she endears herself to the reader when she sits down on a crate, part of the parlor furniture, and just as she cozily establishes herself, there is a noise of splintering wood and above it a pleasant tinkling sound. "Fine!" Mr. Duffy says. "Those were the Christmas tree ornaments." Reading Tippy Locklin is like opening a grab bag of delightful surprises - the laughter, warmth and love that fill the book remain vivid long after the last page has been turned. "I little thought," wrote Dorothy Parker at the close of her lengthy review in Esquire magazine, "that I should ever go on like this over a book about a small boy - especially one named Tippy. But here I am, and all naked of apologies." Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Condition: Good. 1961. First Edition Thus. 288 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Text block edge is moderately foxed. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Sunning to spine.

Condition: Good. 1961. First Published in Great Britain. 288 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Minor foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front pastedown and free endpapers. Mild creasing to gutters. Binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with visible staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends.

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First Edition. Red hard cloth in the excellent and unclipped dust-jacket designed by Stein. 288 pages, edge o the last two pages tattered. Some patches of light staining to boards. Clean and bright copy with no old inscriptions. A warm and funny novel about the first eight years in the life of a boy born in Brooklyn in 1920. Surprised to learn that he is not the center of the universe, Tippy is not unduly dismayed because there are so many fascinating characters around to observe and puzzle over - like the mysterious and charming professional gambler, Prince Sharkey, and the indomitable Mr Duffy, father of many, who advises little Tippy to quit horsing around and settle down with a nice girl. "I little thought that I should ever go on like this over a book about a small boy, especially one named Tippy. But here I am, and naked of apologies" - Dorothy Parker. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated first edition. True first, American edition. Peach boards with black titles to spine. 1" tear at head of spine that appears as impact damage perhaps. Matching area of damage at same spot on wrapper. Dust jacket has some additional chips along top edge. Not clipped. See photos. A true first in a Very Good wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition. It's been a long time since a dust jacketed copy of the true First Edition (an English first edition was published in 1961) of this book has been listed for sale. I know that because I've owned the book for a long time and kept an eye on new listings. There are currently no other dust jacketed copies of this 1960 first edition for sale anywhere on the Internet. In fact there are no first editions for sale anywhere on the Internet, dust jacket or not. There is one Little, Brown, and Company copy without a dust jacket that is selling for $200.00. So if you've been waiting for this opportunity the day has come. I have taken very good care of this book, as you can see from the photographs provided. The orange covers are spotless. There isn't any wear on any of the edges. The lettering on the spine is very bright. The worst that can be said is that there is a little wrinkling at the spine ends and a very light crease at the bottom right-hand corner of the front cover. And this 386 page book is very solidly bound, no issues in that regard. It is also very clean. I don't believe there are any instances of soiling on any of the pages, including the inside covers and endpapers. Nor are there any creases or dogeared corners. No markings. No attachments. And no one has written their name or anything else anywhere in the book. You can see the extremely rare dust jacket in the first few photographs. I've always had it in a protective cover. The jacket is quite clean. It does have a 1 3/8th inch thin tear at the juncture of the front and spine and a 1 1/2 inch thin tear at the juncture of the spine and rear cover. Both tears come up from the bottom edge. As you can see they are hardly visible in the protective cover. They would be more visible without it. There is also a light pen jag on the front cover near to the bottom edge and another one on the rear cover adjacent to the spine. There is a 1 inch tear off the bottom edge of the rear cover and a light spot of soiling adjacent to it. There are a couple of very tiny bits of loss around the top of the spine. The flaps are in very good condition, clean and not worn. The dust jacket is NOT price-clipped, no clips at all. On the rear flap the publisher describes the book as 'like slowly emptying a grab bag filled with surprises. The laughter, warmth and love that fill the book will remain in the reader's memory long after he has turned the last page.' The brilliant Dorothy Parker whose objectivity might be better trusted wrote of Tippy Locklin in her Esquire review 'They are fascinating characters, as caught forever by Mr. Meagher. I little thought that I should ever go on like this over a book about a small boy, especially one named Tippy. But here I am, and all naked of apologies'.