SPANKING WATSON - Scarce Fine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: Signed by Kinky Friedman - SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE

Friedman, Kinky

ISBN 10: 0684850613 / ISBN 13: 9780684850610

Published by New York City, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1999, 1999

About this Item

1st Printing. Signed. 218 pages. Published in 1999. The author's thirteenth novel. One of Kinky Friedman's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Kinky Friedman's "Spanking Watson". The same bizarre mixture of ingredients that has turned Kinky Friedman from a country musician into a popular mystery writer - and hero of his own series. Continues in this exercise oddity, which, true to form, seems to contain something to offend virtually everyone. "If you spend a little time with lesbians and nuns, you begin to see the effect love or the absence of it can have on a human life" (Kinky Friedman). An absolute "must-have" title for Kinky Friedman collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the title page by Kinky Friedman. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the finest American humorist/mystery writers of our time. A fine copy. ISBN 0684850613. Seller Inventory # 10768

Bibliographic Details

Title: SPANKING WATSON - Scarce Fine Copy of The ...

Publisher: New York City, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1999

Publication Date: 1999

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author

Edition: 1st Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

The return of private eye Kinky Friedman chronicles his efforts to test his stalwart band of "Village Irregulars," seeking a right and proper sidekick among them, a search that coincides with a deadly danger menacing Kinky's upstairs neighbor. 60,000 first printing. Tour.

Review:

The same bizarre mixture of ingredients that has turned Kinky Friedman from a country musician into a popular mystery writer and hero of his own series continues in this exercise oddity, which, true to form, seems to contain something to offend virtually everyone. "If you spend a little time with lesbians and nuns, you begin to see the effect love or the absence of it can have on a human life," muses the Kinkster at one point. This comes after a campaign by Friedman to terrorize his upstairs neighbor, Winnie Katz, whose lesbian dance classes have caused the ceiling of his Greenwich Village loft to collapse. But Kinky's amateur terrorism pales by comparison to the mysterious person who wants to do some real damage to Winnie, so Friedman and his Village Irregulars turn from aggressors to protectors. Surrounded by Italian gangsters with names like Linguini and Gepetto, they plan a weird revenge scheme that involves such horrors as chainsaws and Friedman in a red wig.

The title--usually the best thing about a Kinkster book--has to do with which particular member of his motley crew will be officially chosen to play Watson to his Sherlock. But even here there are no clear answers: as Friedman says, "President Clinton is Watson. The Chinese dwarf who paints pastels on Mott Street is Watson. The world is Watson. Only Sherlock Holmes stands achingly alone on the weather-beaten, worm-eaten cross of rational thought. Sherlock Holmes, you see, is the thinking man's Jesus Christ."

--Dick Adler