tippy locklin de meagher joseph william (12 résultats)

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Paperback. Etat : 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.

Etat : 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.

Etat : 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.