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277 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's half blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine over red boards in original publisher's pictorial wrapper's. First edition. A literary treat, caviar to the general--or a bore to others--as well as a plotty labyrinth full of false bottoms and Nabokovian distortion mirrors. The greatest literary publisher in England, Wallace Wales, of Wales & Wales, whose list is stuffed with mummified giants, is dead. His underlings, of course, knew that Wales never read the manuscripts he published, only their synopses and blurbs. And now he has left behind a most twisted will: he wants no obsequies, only to be cremated in black tie, dinner jacket and black hose, after one night in the candlelit mortuary with editor Robert Racine as lone mourner. Imagine Racine's shock when at about 2:30 a.m. the corpse sits up, strikes him on the chest, hops out of his coffin and leaves the mortuary. In the morning, however, the mortician declares that the body was in the…
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- Title Wale's Work
- Author Walshe, Robert
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- Edition First American E
- Pages 276
- Publisher Ticknor & Fields, New York
- Date 1986
- ISBN 9780899194301
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