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Rare and modern books

Birney, Earle

Turvey : A Military Picaresque

McClelland & Stewart, 1949

30.00 €

Kalamos Books

(STREETSVILLE, Canada)

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Year of publication
1949
Place of printing
Toronto
Author
Birney, Earle
Publishers
McClelland & Stewart
Edition
1st Canadian Edition.
Keyword
HUMOUR FICTION CANADIAN CANADIAN WRITERS
Cover description
Good with slight chips & Tears
Binding description
H
Dust jacket
Yes
State of preservation
Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
Yes

Description

Private Thomas Leadbeater Turvey is nobody's idea of a capable recruit. Shifted from regimental pillar to post, Turvey tries and fails at every odd job in the army with a remarkable genius for mishap. Satirical account of life in the Canadian Army. Winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour in 1949. Donor inscription on ffep dated Christmas 1949. Dj now protected in a plastic sleeve