The Sound of Trumpets. A Comedy of Modern Politics. First Printing. Signed by the Author

Mortimer, John

ISBN 10: 0670878618 / ISBN 13: 9780670878611

Published by Viking/Penguin, London, 1998

About this Item

London. Viking/Penguin. 1998. First Edition/First Printing (full number line including 1) to the copyright page. Hard Cover. Medium 8vo 9½" x 6 ?  approx. 273 pp. Black publisher boards with gilt titles to the spine. Blue endpapers. Artwork to jacket by Ian Pollock. Flat signed by the author direct to the title page withput dedication. The book is square and firmly bound. No previous ownership inscriptions or remainder marks. The boards are clean and unfaded, the corners and spine ends sharp. The pages and closed page edges are clean. The dust jacket is crisp and complete and unclipped at £16.99. The colours are bright, fresh and unfaded, corners and spine ends are sharp. A little light creasing to the rear wrap. Jacket and book are near fine.

It is the dawn of New Labour in the Hartscombe constituency. Ennobled and embittered, Lord Titmuss fondly remembers his days with Thatcher, and sees in the mobile phone-toting New Labour candidate the perfect instrument of revenge.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Sound of Trumpets. A Comedy of Modern Politics. First Printing. Signed by the Author
• Publisher: Viking/Penguin, London
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670878618
• ISBN 13: 9780670878611
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Ian Pollock
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Dimensions: 16W x 24H x 3D centimeters 16 centimeters width by 24 centimeters height by 3 centimeters depth
• Weight: 650 grams
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

In the final installment of the post-World War II trilogy that began with the best-selling Paradise Postponed, the merciless MP Leslie Titmuss has been deposed and replaced by Terry Flitton, a centrist-style politician familiar to both sides of the Atlantic. 40,000 first printing. Tour.

About the Author

John Mortimer is a playwright, novelist, and former practicing barrister who has written many film scripts as well as stage, radio, and television plays, the Rumpole plays, for which he received the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. He is the author of twelve collections of Rumpole stories and three acclaimed volumes of autobiography.