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VARNEY,REG: : THE LITTLE CLOWN:AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY.[Author SIGNED copy.]

LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,1990.

ISBN 0340520779.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,but author's neat,blue ink dedication+signature: "Best Wishes Reg Varney." to title-page just below the title.Bright,crisp, clean,glossy laminated small b/w subject portrait photograph superimposed,to colour pictorial illustrated upper wrap,full b/w subject portrait photograph to rear wrap with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creases to edges - miniscule rubbing to head of spine/ backstrip with reciprocal rubbing due to laminate curling,similar miniscule rubbing to top two corners.Described hard,but fairly and honestly,nowhere as bad as it reads! Top+fore-edges bright and clean,contents bright,tight and clean - no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright,clean,plain royal blue paper-covered bds with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.8vo,11-224pp includes 22 chapters,8pp contemporary b/w subject autobiographicl photographs (from author's own private collection) in one block,between pp128/9,plus [unpaginated] half-title page, author SIGNED,inscribed title-page,dedication, contents+illus list/page,title separator page. The star of The Rag Trade and On The Buses reveals a rich new talent as a writer,with the enthralling, often funny,sometimes moving account of his humble origins in London's East End and how he started his professional career as an entertainer in the rough-and-tumble of working men's clubs.Reg Varney has many faces. Before The Rag Trade and On The Buses,he topped the bill in music hall.He has also played pantomime (invariably as the dame),made several successful films,and most recently (then around 1990) toured Australia and the Far East with his one-man show. In THE LITTLE CLOWN he tells his own story - and what a life! Born during WW1 in the East End,he was so small by his teens (not yet 5ft) that the obvious career for him on leaving school was as a messenger boy.But at weekends he lived another life,playing the piano,piano-accordion and singing,initially among the working men's clubs of east London,later in music halls and pubs,and memorably,as he recounts,on one occasion busking on Southend beach.The Varneys were a close family and in THE LITTLE CLOWN he paints an evocative,touching picture of making ends meet on his father's weekly wage of £2.10s and what extra his mother could bring in from taking in laundry and keeping chickens.But the Varneys - Reg was one of five children - lacked for little.THE LITTLE CLOWN is a joyful memoir that establishes Reg Varney in a hitherto unsuspected new career as a writer.He is currently (then 1990) working on a sequel to this title. Since April,2013,the UK Post Office has increased it's Pricing in Proportion template, altering its weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its compensation rates too! So, please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item,for correct shipping/ P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.
"Best Wishes Reg Varney."

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