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Matilda
by Paul Gallico
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/very good
- Seller
-
Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Coward McCann, 1970. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. First American edition (stated). Hardcover in black cloth stamped in gilt. 313 pp. Fine in very good dust jacket, bright, some wear at the extemities and a short closed tear bottom edge of spine strip. Gallico's warm, rollicking tale of a boxing kangaroo. When the world middleweight champion goes to a fair, he encounters Matilda, the aforementioned boxing kangaroo (who is, by the way, a male) that a theatrical agent sent to the showman who though he was getting a knife thrower. The human boxer is egged into a match with Matilda and gets knocked out in the second round. General hilarity and confusion ensues. The novel was adapted into the 1978 film of the same name starring Elliot Gould and Robert Mitchum (they used a human actor to play Matilda---seems like an opportunity missed).
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- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E26050
- Title
- Matilda
- Author
- Paul Gallico
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- Publisher
- Coward McCann
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- kangaroos, marsupials, boxing, boxers, carnivals, movies
Terms of Sale
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
TRACKING AND INSURANCE AT OPTION OF BUYER. ON UNINSURED ITEMS, OUR RESPONSIBILITY ENDS WITH PROOF OF SHIPPING---NO EXCEPTIONS! Books are returnable if misdescribed; we must be notified within 48 hours of receipt if making a return. We conform to accepted ABAA grading. "First edition" means "first printing" unless noted; if it doesn't say it has a jacket then it doesn't; faults such as ownership signatures, price clipping, etc. will be noted in the listing. Member ABAA, ILAB, ABNJ.
About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
Biblio member since 2005
Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
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- Gilt
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- Jacket
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- Fine
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