Buy this book on-line GUINNESS,ALEC**: : My Name Escapes Me - The Diary of a Retiring ActorLONDON.HARPER COLLINS,1996. ISBN 0241136679.
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 to dw/dj.Subject's bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated full-length colour photographic illustrated dw/dj panels, with brown+black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges generally 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. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, original plain black cloth boardds with bright, crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a b/w striped headband and immaculate plain burgundy endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii-xpp+1-214pp [paginated] includes a Preface by John le Carre,an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication with an epigram below it.See also my book ID rja620616 for another similar condition edn of this same titlr and also rja684817 for it's UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn successor 'A Positively Final Appearance: A Journal,1996- 1998'.
Diary covers eighteen months from January 1995 till June 1996.Some fascinating memories and anecdotes from his long and distinguished acting career.Inevitably,a strand of poignancy in these diaries as friends die and memorial services attended.But the pleasure and fun to be had with close friends like Alan Bennett and Irene Worth,Lauren Baccall and John Wells,form a strong backbone to these marvellously entertaining diaries.
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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 to dw/dj.Subject's bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated full-length colour photographic illustrated dw/dj panels, with brown+black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges generally 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. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, original plain black cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a b/w striped headband and immaculate plain burgundy endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii-xpp+1-214pp [paginated] includes a Preface by John le Carre,an Index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication with an epigram below it.See also my book ID rja500 for another similar condition edn of this title and also rja684817 for it's UK,HB+dw/dj,1st edn successor 'A Positively Final Appearance: A Journal,1996-1998'. Diary covers eighteen months from January 1995 till June 1996.Some fascinating memories and anecdotes from his long and distinguished acting career.Inevitably,a strand of poignancy in these diaries as friends die and memorial services attended.But the pleasure and fun to be had with close friends like Alan Bennett and Irene Worth, Lauren Bacall and John Wells,form a strong backbone to these marvellously entertaining diaries.
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