The Bishop’s Jaegers.

SMITH, Thorne.

$175.00

Item Number: 109968

Garden City: Sun Dial Press, 1932.

First Sun Dial Press edition of Smith’s  wildly hilarious comic romp, preceded by the first edition published by Doubleday, Doran & Company in the same year. Octavo, original cloth. Illustrations by Roese. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.

Adrift and listless, a wealthy coffee heir in search for life's meaning finds himself, at his secretary's insistence, at the center of a bizarre coterie of characters who invade a nudist colony. Here is Thorne Smith at his best, in a madly hilarious tale, at once mad, tender, and gleeful.