Search Results: the journal of edwin carp by haydn richard

BearManor Media, 2016. Paperback. Like New. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1954. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Octavo. 8vo. (8) 242 (6) pp, fb&w rontis. stated. First Printing, 1954. 1/4" to 3/8" chipping along bottom edge dj with some additional tiny chips to same, else, Pristine, no wear. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 6" x 8.25". Black quarter-cloth with brown paper-covered boards, blind stamped decorative front board, gilt lettering to front board and spine, and black top text block. Illustrated, Not Price Clipped, dj in acetate protector. "The annals here transcribe Carp's difficulties as a landlord,- with a leaking pipe, with a somnabulistic paying guest, and with a Mrs. Luby whose profession is doubtful- to all save Edwin. A decorous diversion which through the absurdities of a Victorian gentility and a homiletic flow of phrase manages quite some humor, of a special nature.".

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New York: Simon & Schuster, 1954. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. 242pp. Small stain on the foredge, board edges slightly sunned, else near fine in a very good dust jacket with tiny nicks and tears, and a lightly toned spine with modest soiling on the rear panel. Haydn was a British-American comedic actor who played eccentric characters like Edwin Carp, a poet and fish expert.