Won by Goodbody Ernest Ryan Patrick (5 results)

Paperback (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Condition: Good. 1963. First Edition. 255 pages. Beige and white pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Slight forward lean to text block. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Light tanning to spine and edges.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Very Good dj. First American Edition. [nice tight clean copy, minor shelfwear only, "The Mirisch Corporation" stamped on front endpaper; the jacket is only lightly edgeworn, but downgraded because of severe fading to spine (title is unreadable)]. "A super-hilarious comedy of military misadventure," a faux-WWII memoir likened in the jacket blurb to a "British 'No Time for Sergeants'," and further declared to be "right on target for readers who like Peter Sellers or Alec Guinness." Alas, when they made a movie out of it, they didn't get either one of those fellows but had to make do with Michael Crawford and John Lennon (the latter in an actual acting role, for the first and last time), and the resulting film proved to be an uncharacteristic low point for the director (Richard Lester) who was then riding high. (The "Mirisch Corporation" stamp inside this book notwithstanding, the Mirisches apparently had nothing to do with the production of the film.). Illustrated by (dj) Isadore Seltzer (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. B0000CLX6S. includes VG dustjacket. jacket has some shelfwear. 1963. 1st edn. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. SUBTITLED : ` The Memoirs of a Heavily Armed Civilian'. 256 page work of black comedy that was later turned into a film of the same name. (The film version had one John Lennon as Musketeer Gripweed .) Read more about: Kalougie, Passerschein, Leamington Spa, P.O.W. camp, Omonia Square, brandy, Allied goodwill, Lawrence of Arabia disguise, and Corporal Dooley. Two sections of b/w photographs. Cond ; Boards are green with gilt lettering - spine only. End-papers are white. D.J. is white and khaki with white and black lettering. Very grainy photo of the officer Goodbody. Tight in binding. Minimal soiling. Large blacked-out section on front board - verso. D.J. has plenty of wear. Reading copy only. Quote (p. 105) : I stressed to them again the vital military advantage of surprise and while I was talking I noticed the attention of my order group wandering continually towards the Ladies Enclosure, where three of the most nubile occupants were belly-dancing to `Ranmona' on the gramophone. I detected then, of course, that ._._._. ." Size: Octavo. B/W Photographs (illustrator). …