Clinging To the Wreckage, a Part Of Life

NY: Penguin, 1984. FINE condition in FINE original beige pictorial paper wraps. NY. Penguin. SOFTCOVER. 1984. FIRST US Paperback Edition. SIGNED by Author. AS NEW, square and tight, UNREAD, NO creasing. Age toning to page edges. Autobiography of London barrister, novelist, playwright, journalist - author of Brideshead Revisited and Rumpole of… Read more about this item

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. With ALS laid in.

London, England: Penquin. prev owners message inside.The creator of Rumpole, the best playwright to ever appear for a muderer at the Central Criminal Court, John Mortimer now gives us his funny, astringent and tender autobiography.B/W photographs. 256 pp.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern… Read more about this item

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982. 1st edition. Fine. large octavo. hardback with dust jacket 200pp., b/w pls.,

London England: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Very Good/Good. 1982. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0297780107 Hardback Hardcover. Clinging to the Wreckage. Wear to top edge of spine of D/J. Browning to spine of D/J. Price clipped. Mortimer feels that he has been clinging to the wreckage of a vanished middle-class childhood… Read more about this item

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1982 Hardcover with dust jacket Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with stamps, stickers, pocket and barcode. FAIR book in FAIR price-clipped dust jacket "If you swim ashore," said the man with the bears to John Mortimer,"you inevitably drown. I can't swim, so I cling to the wreckage. It's far safer."… Read more about this item

London England: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982. Hardback. Very slight foxing to edge. Mortimer feels that he has been clinging to the wreckage of a vanished middle-class childhood through storms in the Law Courts and high winds in Hollywood, through sunny days in the Theatre and the squalls of the Permmissive Society (for which he became an unlikey advocate), while pursuing… Read more about this item