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MORTIMER**, JOHN : Where There's a Will

LONDON.VIKING/PENGUIN GROUP,2003.

ISBN 0670913650.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1.Stated First published 2003.] NFINE/NFINE. Owner's unused,but pasted on b/w CHRIST CHURCH OXFORD illustrated bookplate to top,right-hand corner of front free endpaper,but no price-clip to dw/dj. [Coincidentally,and interstingly, at 17 Mortimer was at Brasenose College,Oxford, reading Law,though he was actually based at Christ Church because the Brasenose buildings had been requisitioned for the war effort.] Bright,crisp,clean,wrap-around,glossy white background with colour pictorial artwork by Tony Healey,illustrated front+rear panels of dw/dj, with capitalised,blocked gilt-lettered author name and brown-lettered title to front of dw/dj; spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered author+title as front and  publisher's capitalised,black-lettered+illustrated name to foot of same,rear panel with critics' review of author's 'The Summer of a Dormouse' - see my book ID rja22186 for a UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present, rear panel of dw/dj with some minimal superficial scoring but without penetration to board beneath.Top edges toned with only a tiny indeterminate blemish - not foxing/spotting, fore-edges also toned but also without foxing/ spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips, appears unread,other than my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, original plain navy blue cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt lettered spine/backstrip,a gold+ white striped headband,and clean plain maroon endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,ix-xpp+1- 181pp [paginated] includes a Contents list/ table,32 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title +title pages,a dedication,and 2 epigrams (W. B. Yeats, 'The Tower and William Shakespeare, 'Richard II').                   Visually the exterior appearance is still exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its 20-year-old age.It is only the minimal faults described that prevents a slightly higher overall grading.Despite them,it really is still an exceptional copy and a welcome addition to Mortimer's works.                                'Let's choose executors and talk of wills.' So said Shakespeare's Richard II at the time of his defeat and approaching death.It's a natural instinct - to put one's home in order and decide exactly what to pass on to the next generation. Pondering this question,John Mortimer reflects on the inheritance he received: a house and garden certainly,but something else for which he has been equally grateful - an approach to life and a view of our brief existence suspended between two vast eternities.He discusses the sort of things he would pass on in turn and offers an instructive,often comic,account of what a decent life might be. 'Where There's a Will' is a worldly-wise,never world-weary,wonderfully entertaining, occasionally outrageous and always thought-provoking.Author died 16th January,2009.          Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!         N.B. ALL buyers please note,that stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE.    ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of any inexpensive book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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