Kenneth Williams Unseen: The private notes, scripts and photographs
Language: English
Published by HarperCollins Entertainment, 2008
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Cocksparrow Books, Salisbury, Wiltshire, United KingdomCocksparrow Books
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HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 1st. FNL.* Date of Publication: 2008* Publisher: Harper Collins.* Binding and cover condition: Maroon cloth, white title to spine. Considerable shelf wear to edges and corners. Top and bottom edges somewhat faded. GD* Jacket condition: Illustrated dust wrapper showing photograph of Kenneth Williams against red patterned ground, white title to spine and face, spine faded but in protected jacket. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £20.00. Some shelf wear to top edge and to head of spine, now reinforced. Some damp staining inside jacket. GD* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Photomontage illustrations to end papers. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: Numerous illustrations in b/w and colour plus facsimile scripts.* Pages: 273 pp. text. iv pp. sources, credits and index at rear.* Description: 2008 marks the 20th anniversary of the death of legendary comic actor and broadcaster Kenneth Williams. Among the actor's bequests, in a will which itself was controversial enough to require re-examination, was a large cache of private papers and memorabilia inherited by his godson, Robert Chiddell, and subsequently acquired by the broadcaster and Williams fanatic, Wesley Butters. This material, none of which has been seen before, includes scripts and drafts by Williams, lectures and speeches delivered by him (to an audience of policemen, in a couple of cases), a large number of superb photographs from all phases of his career, and creative writing which even extends to a fictional recreation of his own turbulent Cockney childhood.* A GOOD copy of the 1st/1st FNL, with considerable wear and some fading.* 2008-10-20.…
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- Title
- Kenneth Williams Unseen: The private notes, scripts and photographs
- Author
- Butters, Wes Davies, Russell
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Entertainment
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- VG/ACC/GD
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0007280858
- ISBN 13
- 9780007280858
- Edition
- y 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp. FNL.
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Cocksparrow Books
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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Cocksparrow Books is a small on-line second hand book store selling for the last 25 years following the closure of our small bookshop in Wadhurst, East Sussex. We specialise in non-fiction and hard to find titles in a number of fields. We also sell early impression fiction in VG condition avoiding more recent best sellers and airport editions. Our condition notes are as detailed as possible to allow purchasers to fully appreciate what they can expect when they buy. We are open to queries and will do our best to respond quickly to text messages and e-mails. Our offerings may not be the cheapest but if you are looking for a positive outcome to a purchase on-line, do consider ordering from us.…
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