Buy this book on-line GROVES, VALERIE: : A VOYAGE ROUND JOHN MORTIMER: A BIOGRAPHY OF THE CREATOR OF RUMPOLE OF THE BAILEYUSA.NY.VIKING,2007. ISBN 9780670018802.
US,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour pictorial artwork by Daniel Adel,subject's portraits painting illustrated front panel of dw/dj, with b/w lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Rear, top edge of dw/dj with some minimal creasing.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain red paper-covered boards with black paper blind spine with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.US,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,viii-xpp+2-542pp [paginated] includes separate contents and illustrations lists /tables,27 chapters,16pp contemporary b/w auto+biographical photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp16/7 and pp304/5 respectively,notes,list of works,a bibliography,acknowledgements,permissions and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title,author's other works list,title page,a dedication,and 2pp blanks at the rear of the book.
Novelist,playwright and barrister Sir John Mortimer has led an extraordinarily rich and daring life,privately and professionally,much of it in the public eye.His own writings,from the play 'A Voyage Round My Father',later a movie starring Laurence Olivier,to his wildly popular books in the 'Rumpole' series,to his three acclaimed volumes of autobiography have rewarded readers and viewers with insight and humour.
Now,for the first time,biographer Valerie Groves has been given full access to Mortimer.'A Voyage Round John Mortimer' traces Mortimer's legal and literary career,from his first attempts at writing novels and plays,and the early help he offered his barrister father,through his great triumphs in the courts to the creation of Horace Rumpole,one of the most popular characters in contemporary fiction and television.Mortimer's personal life - including his marriages to Penelope Mortimer and Penelope II,and his many affairs - is as colourful as any fiction he's written.
Essential reading for Mortimer's many fans,'A Voyage Round John Mortimer' will delight and educate as well as reveal the comples,sometimes controversial,and occasionally infuriating character of John Mortimer.
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