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The Book of Heroic Failures. The Official Handbook of the Not Terribly Good Club of Great Britain Cloth - 1979

by Stephen Pile

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London England: Routlede & Kegan Paul. Very Good/Good. 1979. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 071000317X Hardback Hardback. First Edition. tiny closed tear top edge of d/j In this volume, itself not terribly good, the author has lovingly chronicled the all-time greats: those who have been so bad at things that they shine. Doring something badly, he argues, requires vision, originality and genius. It is hard not to feel boundless admiration, for example, for the fifty Mexican convicts who dug an escape tunnel out of their jail and came up in the courtroom where many of them had been sentenced, or for the world's worst tourist who spent three days in New York believing he was in Rome. This anthologyu of incompetence is the official handbook of the Not Terribly Good Club of Great Britain. Illustrations. 160 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) .
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  • Title The Book of Heroic Failures. The Official Handbook of the Not Terribly Good Club of Great Britain
  • Author Stephen Pile
  • Illustrator Bill Tidy
  • Binding Cloth
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good/Good
  • Pages 180
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routlede & Kegan Paul, London England
  • Date 1979
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 101907
  • ISBN 9780710003171

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