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Travels with My Aunt

Author Name    Greene, Graham

Title   Travels with My Aunt

Binding   Hard Cover

Book Condition   Very Good in Very Good dj

Publisher   New York Viking Press 1970

Seller ID   2175

Pirated edition from Taiwan. An off beat 1960's treat: Henry Pulling is a bank clerk who loves raising Dahlias, and lives a quiet life, until meets up with his 80 year old Aunt Augusta. Henry soon becomes absorbed in his Aunt's unusual and ihedonistic lifestyle. A lively funny adventure as they travel first to Istanbul on the Orient Express, becoming involved with drugs, spies and currency smugglers, and a host of other characters. This is a Taiwanese bootleg edition. Dust Jacket looks exactly like the original, binding different. Green cloth boards and spine, white lettering to spine. DW not price clipped, lavender, illustrated, blue spine. Upper spine ends few small chips, upper and lower corner flap crease, rear flap same. Rear lower flap edge 1 inch closed tear, lower joint and edge same, uooer joint edge 1 inch closed tear. Mild foxing to e.p. clean, tightly bound. In protective mylar. Nice solid copy of this charming comedy that became a movie, directed by George Cukor, starring, Maggie Smith - Aunt Augusta, Alec McCowen - Henry Pulling, Louis Gossett Jr. - Wordsworth. sm 8 vo, 225 pages.

Travels with my Aunt, sixties generation, Bootleg Novels Taiwanese bootleg Travels with my aunt Humor, Adventure, Travel

Price = 10.00 USD

 


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