Buy this book on-line GALLICO**, PAUL: : MATILDA.**LONDON.WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD.,1970. ISBN 0434280585.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[A Collectors' Editions Club Choice.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,dark brown background with pink+white lettering to front panel+spine/backstrip,rear panel with white lettered publisher's advert and critics' reviews of listed titles; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain maroon cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters within a black panel with gilt borders to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,2- 313pp [paginated] includes 26 chapters,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and a dedication.
A highly collected and prolific book author,and an unusual item in Gallico's comic style and will be an important and welcome addition to the Gallico canon.
When a Broadway agent sells a boxing kangaroo act to a showman who rang up for a knife thrower,something really gets started.The kangaroo is a male called Matilda who accidentally tangles with a middle-weight boxing king incognito.The affray is reported with mock seriousness by Duke Parkhurst,journalist,who claims that Matilda has technically become World Champion.Thereafter Bimmie the agent,Billy Baker the Bermondsey Kid who owns Matilda, Duke and a variety of rascals,scoundrels and reprobates all get involved.Even the Mafia tries to get a slice of the action.
Paul Gallico has written an ingenious and hilarious entertainment which is a champion in the fiction contest.
Since April 2013 and again in March 2015, and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template, altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!
So,please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of GALLICO**, PAUL: : MATILDA.**. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. GALLICO**, PAUL: : MATILDA.**LONDON.WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD.,1970. ISBN 0434280585.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[A Collectors' Editions Club Choice.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,dark brown background with pink+white lettering to front panel+spine/backstrip,rear panel with white lettered publisher's advert and critics' reviews of listed titles; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain maroon cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters within a black panel with gilt borders to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,2-313pp [paginated] includes 26 chapters,plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,and a dedication.
A highly collected and prolific book author,and an unusual item in Gallico's comic style and will be an important and welcome addition to the Gallico canon.
When a Broadway agent sells a boxing kangaroo act to a showman who rang up for a knife thrower,something really gets started.The kangaroo is a male called Matilda who accidentally tangles with a middle-weight boxing king incognito.The affray is reported with mock seriousness by Duke Parkhurst,journalist,who claims that Matilda has technically become World Champion.Thereafter Bimmie the agent,Billy Baker the Bermondsey Kid who owns Matilda, Duke and a variety of rascals,scoundrels and reprobates all get involved.Even the Mafia tries to get a slice of the action.
Paul Gallico has written an ingenious and hilarious entertainment which is a champion in the fiction contest.
Since April 2013 and again in March 2015, and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!
So,please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of GALLICO**, PAUL: : MATILDA.**. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. GALLICO, Paul : MatildaHeinemann 1970
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