Squire Haggard's Journal
by Michael Green
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0091239303
- ISBN 13
- 9780091239305
- Seller
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Lompoc, California, United States
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About This Item
Hutchinson of London, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1975 FIRST EDITION hardcover. Illustrated cover boards with no jacket, as issued. Nice UNREAD COPY inside and out, with sharp edges and corners. Unmarked pages, firm binding. Minimal dust smudging at page edges. Pages very lightly age-tanned. Nice copy overall, uncommon thus. 128 pages. Classic ribald fiction; a hilarious legend of a novel. "Michael Greenââ¬â¢s parody of an 18th-century diary plays with conventions recognizable from Pepys or Boswell: the chronicle of daily expenses, strange things eaten, and whores indulged. The cheap, brutal, drunk and corpulent Squire also records the local deaths, from 'Griping of the Guts' and 'the Windy Spasms' to the 'Spasmodick Rumblings.' Detested by his tenants and his hectoring wife, Amos Haggard relies on the good marriage of his sonââ¬âa dim and horny Oxford studentââ¬âto solve his financial troubles. Instead, the two find themselves on a transcontinental debauch, paying their way by cheating at cards and winning contests at belching and expectorating. Baron von Munchausen, Lafayette, and Samuel Johnson make cameo appearancesââ¬âthe last stealing from Haggard a few of his best lines.
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- Bookseller
- Gadzooks Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- p-269
- Title
- Squire Haggard's Journal
- Author
- Michael Green
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0091239303
- ISBN 13
- 9780091239305
- Publisher
- Hutchinson of London
- Place of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1975
- X weight
- 7 oz
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