The Bishop's Jaegers
by Thorne Smith
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Sun Dial Press reprint edition. Gray cloth with black print, no dust jacket. Some soiling to boards. Book plate and gift inscription inside. Depressed and indifferent heir of a vast coffee import fortune, Peter Van Dyke finds his life and high society engagement turn upside down when his secretary, Josephine Duval, determines that she will rescue him from his horrible fate by ruining him morally. After an amusing scandal involving a nude Peter Van Dyke, Miss Duval and an ill starred burglar in a coat closet, he finds himself cast adrift in a fog with a motley crew that includes a Bishop Waller of the Episcopal Church and a former nude model named Aspirin Liz. The enterprising party lands unceremoniously on the shores of one of New York's sauciest nudist colonies, and thus is the liberation of the coffee importer set in motion. One of Smith's few comic novels in which no element of the supernatural is featured. Smith assumes the reader will know that "Jaegers" refers to a union suit (a type of single piece, woolen underwear).
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- Bookseller
- Bujoldfan (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 04102402Bishopar
- Title
- The Bishop's Jaegers
- Author
- Thorne Smith
- Illustrator
- Herbert Roese
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Sun Dial Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1939
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Naturism, nudism
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humor;
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