Cactus in your shorts by George Matheson - 1996-01-01

Lumby BC: Kettle Valley Publishing, Inc.. Very Good+. 1996. First Edition. Softcover. 0969864515 . Card covers show light shelf wear, remainder marks on top and bottom page edges, previous dealer's stamp inside front cover, light corner curl. ; A bright, solid book.; 9.0 X 5.9 X 0.7 inches; 304 pages; A humorous history of BC's desert valley and of its people .

Lumby, BC, Canada: Kettle Valley Pub, 1996. Soft cover. Very Good. Very good condition. Light wear. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictures available upon request.

" George Matheson of the Okanagan was, among many things, British Columbia's funniest publisher. Born in Bobbili, southern India in 1931, he died of a massive heart attack on February 24, 2009. After riotous years in Halifax and Toronto, he had come to Vancouver in 1980 and later moved to the Shuswap, Kelowna, Lumby, and Vernon. He listed his literary influences as Somerset Maugham, Ernie Haemorrhoid, Xavier Hollander, and Mohindas Karamachand Gandhi. He wrote and produced several television documentaries including Kettle and Caboose, 1995; Brookmere Revisited, 1997; and Steam Train Comin', 1998; and Snowplow through Rogers, 1999. Matheson first wrote and published Vader's Caboose, a railway book about the Kettle Valley Railway and its 40-year employee Frank Vader. The current book, a follow-up called "Cactus in your Shorts", describes the history of the Interior desert country. Not to be missed!"

Kettle Valley Pub, 1996T. paperback. Very Good. 0.7087 8.9764 5.9055.

Lumby, British Columbia: Kettle Valley Pub, 1996. Very light rubbing, no bumping or shelfwear. Spine straight and uncreased. Interior tight, clean (other than author's inscription ("Enjoy Osoyoosing") and signature, crisp. Almost as new. Anecdotal stories of some of the colorful characters who populated Osoyoos (in the B.C. Interior) during its infancy. Illustrated with b&w drawings. Not fiction, as the ISBN information misinforms.. Signed by Author. First. Trade Paperback. Fine/No Jacket as Issued. Illus. by Strand, Doug. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.