MORTIMER, JOHN — Rumpole à la Carte
New York / London: Viking Penguin, 1990. Hardcover. ISBN: 0670832847. Second printing. Six stories featuring John Mortimer's always-amusing character, the grouchy London barrister Horace Rumpole. --- In tan paper-covered boards backed in black cloth, with gilt-stamped spine titling. Dust jacket with Christopher Green illustration on front panel. --- With spilled coffee/tea to front free endpaper and textblock fore-edge, volume is otherwise clean, unmarked and tightly-bound. Unclipped ($18.95/£13.99) dust jacket remains bright and intact, but with mild rubbing and chafing to extremities.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (8), 246 pages. Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket .