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A Musing Morley.
by Morley., Robert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG++/VG++/VG/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 090389517X
- ISBN 13
- 9780903895170
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK "ANTHOLOGY," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1974 * Publisher: Robson Books. * Binding and cover condition: Beige cloth covered boards, metallic red titles to spine. No bumps or rubs, no wear but some very slight marks. VG++.* Jacket condition: Photo-illustrated dust wrapper with mono (coloured red) montage of pictures of Morley. Deep red and white titles to face. White titles to grey spine strip. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £3.25. Slight shelf wear to top edge and to head of spine. Two short tears to top edge, now re-inforced. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, minimal age to edges, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: Several b/w photos within text. * Pages: 207 pp. text. i pp. acknowledgements at rear.* Description: Robert Morley has always considered himself as much a writer as an actor. In addition to his play-writing activities, he has long been a regular contributor to British and American magazines – indeed he was recently (at the time of publication) voted "Wittiest Writer of The Year" by Playboy Magazine. This first anthology of some of his best writings shows why.* A NEAR VG+ copy of the 1st./1st. with some dust jacket faults reducing it to VG.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10372
- Title
- A Musing Morley.
- Author
- Morley., Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/VG++/VG
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 090389517X
- ISBN 13
- 9780903895170
- Publisher
- Robson Books.
- Place of Publication
- London UK.
- Date Published
- 1974
- Pages
- 208
- Keywords
- Anthology, Humour, Select Wrirings.
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