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KERSH, Gerald - The Hospitality of Miss Tolliver and Other Stories - (Excellent 1st Ed. H/c in Wrap)
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Book and unclipped (21s) wrapper still in great condition - 1965 - 191 pg. >>> Gerald Kersh was born in Teddington-on-Thames, near London, in 1911. He left school and took on a series of jobssalesman, baker, fish-and-chips cook, nightclub bouncer, freelance newspaper reporterand at the same time was writing his first two novels. His career began inauspiciously with the release of his first novel, Jews Without Jehovah, published when Kersh was 25: the book was withdrawn after only 80 copies were sold when Kershs relatives brought a libel suit against him and his publisher. He gained notice with his third novel, Night and the City (1938) and for the next thirty years published numerous novels and short story collections, including the novel Fowlers End (1957), which some critics, including Harlan Ellison, believe to be his best. - Kersh fought in the Second World War as a member of the Coldstream Guards before being discharged in 1943 after having both his legs broken in a bombing raid. He traveled widely before moving to the United States and becoming an American citizen, because the Welfare State and confiscatory taxation make it impossible to work over there, if youre a writer. - Kersh was a larger than life figure, a big, heavy-set man with piercing black eyes and a fierce black beard, which led him to describe himself proudly as villainous-looking. His obituary recounts some of his eccentricities, such as tearing telephone books in two, uncapping beer bottles with his fingernails, bending dimes with his teeth, and ordering strange meals, like anchovies and figs doused in brandy for breakfast. Kersh lived the last several years of his life in the mountain community of Cragsmoor, in New York, and died at age 57 in 1968 of cancer of the throat. >>> Contains 15 stories among them the following.
And If This Ain't Love, Gorblimey
Bone For Debunkers
An Enemy Of Women
For A Song
Ghost Money
High Stakes At The Swede's
>>> My quest to read everything written by the great man continues with this collection of short stories from 1965, just 3 years before his death. - There's the usual mixture of sci-fi, supernatural and humorous all in Kersh's unique style. - We get one Karmesin story, Bone for Debunkers, in which our hero saves a down on his luck friend with a little light fraud and forgery. (Goodreads)