Anyone Got A Match?, Max Shulman, Heinemann, 1965, 1st UK edition

Anyone Got a Match? by Max Shulman, first published in the UK by Heinemann in 1965, is a sharp and playful social satire, set around the American cigarette business, that takes aim at mid-century American consumerism, television culture, and small-town ambition. Blending Shulman’s trademark humour and romantic absurdity, the novel follows a cast of schemers, dreamers, and advertising executives as they collide in a comic critique of modern life and mass media.

Anyone Got A Match?, by Max Shulman.

Published by William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1965. First UK edition.

A very good chestnut cloth hardback, with gilt title to spine. Cover crisp and clean, with one light scuff. Housed in a good unclipped dustjacket, rubbed to extremties , with some small nibbled losses to edges. The jacket is now housed in a clear, removable, protective plastic sleeve. All soundly bound.

Text is bright and clean throughout with some light spotting to text block edges. No owner's inscriptions.

Text in English.

(v) + 278pp.

203mm high x 136mm wide x 25mm deep.

Weight: approximately 432g (unpacked).