Humorous Stories

by Barry Pain

Hardcover. Good condition. Second impression. With an introduction by Alfred Noyes. Dust jacket is protected with a clear plastic wrapper. Grubby and shelf-worn dust jacket with several nicks and small tears. Jacket spine foot is lightly creased. Page block is tanned, with one or two foxing marks and several scores. One or two marks on pastedowns and endpapers. Newspaper clippings glued on FEP and half-title page. Binding is slightly visible at front. Text is clear. AF

Hardcover

About the author

Born in Cambridge, Barry Eric Odell Pain was educated at Sedbergh School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He became a prominent contributor to The Granta. He was known as a writer of parody and lightly humorous stories.