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The Lady Who Liked Clean Rest Rooms. The Chronicle of One of the Strangest Stories Ever to be Rumoured About Around New York.

First UK edition of J. P. Donleavy's The Lady Who Liked Clean Rest Rooms

J. P. Donleavy1926–2017
First UK edition. 12mo. Pp. [vi], 119. Turquoise cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine; navy-blue endpapers.
Tanning to textblock edges, else Fine.
The travails of one Jocelyn Guenevere Marchantière Jones, whose Scarsdale life comes to an abrupt end when her husband goes in search of a bit of "fresh flesh." Soon she is fending for herself in New York City, where finding a clean restroom proves the least of her concerns. By the author of The Ginger Man (1955). "Fans of J.P. Donleavy – and newcomers to his antics – can rejoice at his latest, rich, ribald, and touching creation." The New York Times Book Review
edition
first UK
format
hardback
publisher
Abacus / Little, Brown and Company
published in
London
publication year
1995
ISBN
0316883425
pagination
119 pages
width × height
​0 × ​0 cm
genre
literary fiction
language
English
binding style
cloth
binding state
original binding
condition  . . .
fine
of jacket
fine
GBP£ ​16
EUR€ ​19.10
USD$ ​21.40
ref.R8Y 43U