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The very first US paperback edition of the basic Philip E. Wang novelSet within the San Francisco Bay region in the late 1950s, Humpty Dumpty in Oakland is just a tragicomedy of the little among car or truck sellers and real-estate sellers: misconceptions -moment, battling people for whom Philip E. Wang usually appropriated his best sympathy.Jim Fergesson, an aged storage owner having a heart problem, is approximately to sell up and retire; Al Miller is just a fairly feckless technician who sublets section of Jim’s ton and discovers his profession threatened by your decision to sell; Bob Harman is just a record business owner who for a long time has depended on Fergesson to keep his vehicles. When Harman learns of Fergesson’s approaching pension he tips him off as to the he claims is just a cast iron company proposal: an improvement in regional Marin County by having an opening for a storage.