2005, ISBN: 9780231038461

Hardcover

Orion Books. First UK edition-first printing. Hardcover. New/As New. Mint condition.Orion,2005.First UK edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2).Black hardback(silver lettering to t… More...

Orion Books. First UK edition-first printing. Hardcover. New/As New. Mint condition.Orion,2005.First UK edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2).Black hardback(silver lettering to the spine) in mint condition,with Dj(a couple of scratches,small nicks and crease on the Dj cover) in fine condition.Illustrated with b/w photos,cartoons.The book is new with light shelf wear on the back of the Dj cover.329pp including List of illustrations,bibliography,index.Price un-clipped. This is another paragraph Product Description: John Mortimer was a promising barrister who married a successful novelist (Penelope Mortimer) and then started writing himself. At first he wrote plays, most famously the autobiographical A VOYAGE ROUND MY FATHER, about his blind barrister father. Alec Guinness, Laurence Olivier and Michael Redgrave were among those who played the role. But it was Mortimer's creation of Rumpole of the Bailey, the irrascible barrister created on TV by Leo McKern, which catapulted him to wider fame and fortune, as his career as a novelist and screenwriter took off. He is credited with the hugely successful TV adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited (Olivier, Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews, Toyah Wilcox) and then Summers Lease (John Gielgud), based on his own story. Meanwhile he had become increasingly well-known as a lawyer. His most famous case was his (initially unsuccessful) defence of two of the three editors of the underground magazine Oz on a charge of obscenity in 1971. In a profession dominated by conservatives, he became everyone's first thought when a barrister with liberal principles and left-wing political beliefs was required. He increasingly moved in (old) Labour circles. The phrase 'champagne socialist' might have been invented for him. He divorced his first wife and married a second Penelope (Penny 2, as she became known). Their daughter is the actor Emily Mortimer. Graham Lord's biography is all the better for being unauthorised. Good stories abound; there are revelations aplenty. The disclosure that he fathered Wendy Craig's love-child only reached the press as a result of Graham Lord's research. There is much more. This biography will provide the full, unvarnished story., Orion Books, 5.5, Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Hardcover. 1973. 1st Edition. 8vo 248pp . Very Good in Very Good DJ. B&W Illustrations Contains 16 essays, most of them by people who knew Evelyn Waugh well all his life ., Little, Brown and Company, 1973, 3, Irvington, New York, U.S.A.: Columbia University Press, 1974. Cloth. Fine/Near Very Good. Literary Criticism: Arnold Bennett, Evelyn Waugh, Ford Madox Ford, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, and E.M. Forster. Slightly smaller book, fine smooth black cloth, red lettering on spine very fine, 294 crisp lightly browned pages. DJ glossy black background rubbed, lettering in white with authors included in red, list of university press books on back, white back very slightly and uniformly browned, browned at inner flap edges. Near Very Good DJ/Very Fine book., Columbia University Press, 1974, 4<

1974, ISBN: 0231038461

Hardcover

[EAN: 9780231038461], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 41.26], [PU: Columbia University Press, New York], BIOGRAPHY, ENGLISHLITERATURE NOISBN, Jacket, First edition. xv, 294pp. Small s… More...

[EAN: 9780231038461], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 41.26], [PU: Columbia University Press, New York], BIOGRAPHY, ENGLISHLITERATURE NOISBN, Jacket, First edition. xv, 294pp. Small stain and owner bookplate on front endpapers, very good in a very good rubbed dust jacket with faint dampstains on spine and edges, short tears on extremities. Six essays on Arnold Bennett by John Wain, Evelyn Waugh by David Lodge, Ford Madox Ford by Grover Smith, Joseph Conrad by Robert S. Ryf, Virginia Woolf by Carl Woodring, and E.M. Forster by Harry T. Moore., Books<

1974, ISBN: 9780231038461

New York: Columbia University Press, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. xv, 294pp. Small stain and owner bookplate on front endpapers, very good in a very good rubbed … More...

New York: Columbia University Press, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. xv, 294pp. Small stain and owner bookplate on front endpapers, very good in a very good rubbed dust jacket with faint dampstains on spine and edges, short tears on extremities. Six essays on Arnold Bennett by John Wain, Evelyn Waugh by David Lodge, Ford Madox Ford by Grover Smith, Joseph Conrad by Robert S. Ryf, Virginia Woolf by Carl Woodring, and E.M. Forster by Harry T. Moore., Columbia University Press, 1974, 3<

1974, ISBN: 0231038461

[EAN: 9780231038461], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Columbia University Press], LITERARY CRITICISM, Jacket, A very good book in a very good dust jacket. Jacket has small chip at top… More...

[EAN: 9780231038461], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Columbia University Press], LITERARY CRITICISM, Jacket, A very good book in a very good dust jacket. Jacket has small chip at top of spine. BonB, Books<