LESSING**, DORIS::Alfred & Emily.
- gebrauchtes Buch 2008, ISBN: 9780007233458
UK,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 (£18.99) to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,subject's b/w photographic il… Mehr…
UK,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 (£18.99) to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,subject's b/w photographic illustrated dw/dj front+rear panels,with red,white and grey lettering to front panel; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Small creasing and rubbing to head of spine/backstrip on front panel's gutter's edge - no loss.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear readingcreases to any pages' corners,would appear unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain black endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,3- 312pp [paginated] includes Pts 1-3 comprising 7,9,7 chapters,Lastthoughts,Tom's Stars,16pp of contemporary b/w+colour autobiographical photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp88/9 and pp216/17 respectively,acknowledgements,aselect bibliography,picture credits and an index' plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,a dedication,contents list/table,and individual Pts separator pages. Tommy Woodward was a young man going nowhere when he was discovered singing Jerry Lee Lewis songs in a South Wales club.'Tom Jones - The Life' follows his remarkable journey from the humble terraced streets of a small mining village to becoming one of the greatest male vocalists of modern times.From his early battle with tuberculosis to struggling on the breadline for seven years to support his childhood sweetheart Linda and their son,Tom was no stranger to adversity when he finally got his big break with the song'It's Not Unusual'. His powerful voice and rugged charisma took both Britain and America by storm.The greatest stars of the day,including Elvis Presley,Dionne Warwick and Frank Sinatra,became friends.Worldwide acclaim and great wealth led to a champagne lifestyle and tales of affairs and one-night stands,but he always returned to the wife who stood by him.By the eighties,Tom's star was in decline,but the lad fromTreforest could not be kept down.His son Mark helped to reinvigorate a career that today is stronger than ever,witha younger generation of top musicians clamouring to work with him.Now a judge on 'The Voice',Sir Tom is a bona fide music legend,and this is the story of the real man behind the larger-than-life image.Leading UK celebrity biographer Sean Smith's atmospheric and dramatic account of the great Tom Jones will delight and amaze you from the first page to the last. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHER'S,2015., 5, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1.] FINE+/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip (£16.99) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, matt,b/w photographic illustrated dw/dj panels with brown+black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.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 maroon cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain olive green endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,vii-viiipp+3-274pp [paginated] includes foreword,Pts 1+2; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,title separator page,male+ female individual b/w full-length portrait,photographic frontispieces,Pts separator pages and acknowledgements at rear.In this extraordinary book,the new Nobel Laureate (then 2008) Doris Lessing explores the lives of her parents,both of whom were irrevocably damaged by the Great War.Her father wanted the simple life of an English farmer,but shrapnel almost killed him in the trenches, and thereafter he had to wear a wooden leg.Her mother Emily's great love was a doctor,who drowned in the Channel,and she spent the war nursing the wounded in the Royal Free Hospital. In the fictional first half of 'Alfred & Emily',Doris Lessing imagines the happier lives her parents might have made for themselves had there been no war,a story that begins with them meeting at a village cricket match outside Colchester.This is followed by a piercing examination of their relationship as it actually was in the shadow of the Great War,the family's move to Africa and the impact of her parent's marriage on a young woman growing up in a strange land. 'Here I still am,'says Doris Lessing,'trying to get out from under that monstrous legacy,trying to get free.' Triumphantly,with the publication of 'Alfred & Emily',she has done just that. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,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 the 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 AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always., LONDON.FOURTH ESTATE/HarperCollinsPublishers,2008., 5<
