Book Details
Title: Doctor on Toast
Author: Richard Gordon
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Year: 1961
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Pages: 203
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: N/A
Battle Scars:
Overall acceptable condition.
Outside:
The dust jacket is intact. There is shelf wear through rubbing to edges/ends and corners. There are a couple of smaller tears on edgers, a couple of more moderate tears as pictured. There are a couple of marks and scuffs in places.
The hardcover is well preserved beneath. There is some crushing to the ends of the spine and bumping to corners. The embossing on the spine remains intact and legible.
The page margins (seen when book is closed) are yellowed. There is foxing, most heavily to the top margin profile.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is some yellowing and foxing. There is a book-seller's sticker on the inside of the front cover.
The pages are clean and intact, however there is yellowing/tanning and foxing (mainly contained to the top page margins).
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"The gay Dr. Grimsdyke's well-known genius for disaster finds abundant scope in "Doctor on Toast". When he falls in love with a beautiful model, she is unfortunately the fiancée of a room-mate from his student days - Basil Beauchamp, the future Shakespearean tragedian, though at present obliging as Demon King in provincial pantomime. And when Grimsdyke ingeniously gets himself aboard a liner where the young lady is posing for cruise advertisements, he suffers a voyage which he finally regards as one of the major disasters in maritime history. Meanwhile, his position as official biographer to Sir Lancelot Spratt, the famous St Swithin's surgeon, leads them both through a series of adventures nearly ending in the cells of Brixton Prison. En route they meet a fresh selection of highly eccentric characters - Sir Lancelot's pair of equally fearsome brothers, Captain Spratt of the Merchant Marine and Mr Alphonso Spratt, Q.C.; the highly hypochondriacal Bishop of Wincanton; Dr McFiggie, a murder specialist whose gruesome enthusiasm for work spills into his dinner-table conversation; the dyspeptic Mr Justice Fishwick and that alarming girl from Paris. If everyone somehow reaches a happy ending with the single exception of Grimsduke himself, the reader must agree it wasn't through the young doctor's want of trying."
Book Details
Title: Doctor on Toast
Author: Richard Gordon
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Year: 1961
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Pages: 203
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: N/A
Battle Scars:
Overall acceptable condition.
Outside:
The dust jacket is intact. There is shelf wear through rubbing to edges/ends and corners. There are a couple of smaller tears on edgers, a couple of more moderate tears as pictured. There are a couple of marks and scuffs in places.
The hardcover is well preserved beneath. There is some crushing to the ends of the spine and bumping to corners. The embossing on the spine remains intact and legible.
The page margins (seen when book is closed) are yellowed. There is foxing, most heavily to the top margin profile.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is some yellowing and foxing. There is a book-seller's sticker on the inside of the front cover.
The pages are clean and intact, however there is yellowing/tanning and foxing (mainly contained to the top page margins).
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"The gay Dr. Grimsdyke's well-known genius for disaster finds abundant scope in "Doctor on Toast". When he falls in love with a beautiful model, she is unfortunately the fiancée of a room-mate from his student days - Basil Beauchamp, the future Shakespearean tragedian, though at present obliging as Demon King in provincial pantomime. And when Grimsdyke ingeniously gets himself aboard a liner where the young lady is posing for cruise advertisements, he suffers a voyage which he finally regards as one of the major disasters in maritime history. Meanwhile, his position as official biographer to Sir Lancelot Spratt, the famous St Swithin's surgeon, leads them both through a series of adventures nearly ending in the cells of Brixton Prison. En route they meet a fresh selection of highly eccentric characters - Sir Lancelot's pair of equally fearsome brothers, Captain Spratt of the Merchant Marine and Mr Alphonso Spratt, Q.C.; the highly hypochondriacal Bishop of Wincanton; Dr McFiggie, a murder specialist whose gruesome enthusiasm for work spills into his dinner-table conversation; the dyspeptic Mr Justice Fishwick and that alarming girl from Paris. If everyone somehow reaches a happy ending with the single exception of Grimsduke himself, the reader must agree it wasn't through the young doctor's want of trying."
