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HASTINGS**, MAX: : DID YOU REALLY SHOOT THE TELEVISION? [Author SIGNED copy. **]

LONDON.HarperPress,2010.

ISBN 9780007271719.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,illustrated,1st edn,2nd imp.[Complete number line 2.Two circular adhesive (removable) stickers: 'BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week' and 'Waterstone's Signed by the author' to front panel of dw/dj.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn but author's black felt-tip ink signature - without dedication - a year date (2010),to title page and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,monochrome photographic illustrated dw/dj panels,with red+ black lettering to front and white lettering to rear panels; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges slightly aged/toned but still 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 collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain tan cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate colour pictorial illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,illustrated,1st edn,2nd imp,ix-xpp+1- 278pp [paginated] includes Illustrations list/table,author/subject's Introduction,14 chapters, 32pp contemporary b/w illus+biographical photographs in 4 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp54/5,pp86/7,pp182/3 and pp214/15 respectively, an Appendix,and an Index; plus [unpaginated] half-title,author SIGNED+dated title page,a dedication,and a Contents list/table. Want more/similar Max HASTINGS titles,please search my SIGNED, NAVAL/MILITARY and GENERAL catalogues. Max Hasting's account of his family's tumultuous twentieth-century experiences embraces the worlds of fashion and newspapers, theatre and TV,pioneering in Africa and even - his father's most exotic stunt - being cast away on a desert island in the Indian Ocean. The author is the son of broadcaster and adventurer Macdonald Hastings and journalist and garden writer Anne Scott-James.One of his grandfathers was a literary editor while the other wrote plays,essays and an enchanting memoir of his own Victorian childhood.His great- uncle was an African hunter who wrote verse and became one of Max's heroes. Hastings tells a richly picaresque story, featuring guest appearances by a host of celebrities fom Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad to John Betjeman and Osbert Lancaster,who became his mother's third husband. 'All families are dysfunctional,' Anne asserted impenintently to Max,but the Hastingses managed to be more dysfunctional than most.His father roamed the world for newspapers and as a presenter for BBC TV's legendary 'Tonight' ptogramme,while his mother edited 'Harper's Bazaar',became a famous columnist and wrote best-selling gardening books. Hastings brings together this remarkable cast of forebears,'a tribe of eccentrics',as he himself characterises them. By turns moving,dramatic and comic,the book portrays his own childhood,fraught with rows and explosions,in which the sudden death of a television set was only one highlight.His story will make a lot of people laugh,and perhaps a few cry.It helps to explain why Max Hastings, whose family has produced more than eighty books over three generations,felt bound to follow their path of high adventure and popular journalism. Please contact seller,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALtL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stock(s') shipping quotes are adjusted for any refunds AFTER receipt of order and BEFORE the despatch of the order,especially if the item is offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard US AIRMAIL 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 US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,illustrated,1st edn,2nd imp.
Author's signature+date - without dedication.

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