About this title: The more startling for the economy of its prose and plot, this novel's story, set among the manicured lawns and euphemisms of Whispering Glades Memorial Park in Hollywood, satirizes the American way of death and offers Waugh's memento mori.
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Description: Good. 1990-Paperback----Used-Good-Hall Street Books proudly ships from Brooklyn, NY. All orders are processed and shipped within 24 hours, M-F. 100% money back No-Worry guarantee with expedited delivery and delivery confirmation available. read more
Edition: Paperback
Binding: Softcover--Good
Publisher: Penguin, Middlesex, England
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780140008234ISBN:0140008233
Description: Good. No Jacket. Paperback Fiction Fiction: Waugh's biting satire of the American funeral industry as it exists in Southern California, in a very good paperback edition. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Canada, Limited, Toronto, ON, Canada
Date Published: 1951
ISBN-13:9780140008234ISBN:0140008233
Description: Good. Cover has bumping, chips, crease marks, few marks, price sticker-Light edgewear-Few marks on pgs-Bumping pgs-Yellowing-Liquid damage. read more
Description: Good. 1948-Hardcover----Used-Good-Hall Street Books proudly ships from Brooklyn, NY. All orders are processed and shipped within 24 hours, M-F. 100% money back No-Worry guarantee with expedited delivery and delivery confirmation available. read more
Edition: First Edition, Fifth Printing.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown
Date Published: 1948
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. A very good hardcover copy, barely used. The spine is solid and square, and the hinges are firm. The grey cloth binding shows almost no wear and still looks fresh and sharp. The text is clean and unmarked. The dustjacket, which bears the publisher's original price of $2.50, shows only very mild wear, chiefly some light rubbing of the edges and a little darkening from age. ---------------------------------Publish in 1948, this was the only ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, Boston
Date Published: 1950, c1948
Description: Good in Poor dust jacket. Nice vintage h/c in poor d/j. Book is in good cond. Text clean & tightly bound. Unknown printing. 164 p. ; 18 cm. read more
Edition: First edition thus
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Barnes and Noble, New York, NY
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780760725184ISBN:0760725187
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition/First printing! 8vo Hardcover with DJ. Book: FINE, binding tight, corners/spine square and pointed, text white and bright, appears not to have been read or read very gently. DJ: FINE, bright, shiny, NOT price-clipped, no chips/tears/holes, now in mylar. read more
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