Publicado por Hodder Paperback, 2004
ISBN 10: 0340826126 ISBN 13: 9780340826126
Librería: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.
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Nuevo desde EUR 48,98
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Publicado por Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 2003
ISBN 10: 0340826118 ISBN 13: 9780340826119
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Hardback. Condición: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
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Publicado por Hodder Paperbacks
Librería: WeBuyBooks 2, Rossendale, LANCS, Reino Unido
Condición: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. A few small stains.
Publicado por Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2003
ISBN 10: 0340826118 ISBN 13: 9780340826119
Librería: Anthony Spranger, MARLBOROUGH, WILTS, Reino Unido
Miembro de asociación: PBFA
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 485. illustrted. Dust Jacket unclipped.
Publicado por Coronet
ISBN 10: 0340835206 ISBN 13: 9780340835203
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Publicado por Hodder and Stoughton, 2003
Librería: BARDICBOOKS, Armagh, Irlanda
Hardback. Condición: Vg. Estado de la sobrecubierta: VG. Fifth Printing. coffeee stain to rear of dustwrapper.
Publicado por BBC Consumer Publishing, United Kingdom, London, 2004
ISBN 10: 0754095487 ISBN 13: 9780754095484
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Publicado por Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2003
ISBN 10: 0340826118 ISBN 13: 9780340826119
Librería: Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books, Katoomba, NSW, Australia
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 435 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage. Dust Jacket un-clipped. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Film, Radio & Television. ISBN: 0340826118. ISBN/EAN: 9780340826119. Library of Congress No: 2004401571. Dewey Code: 791.45/092 22. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: RB11509. For further info on this title, click on the "Contact Seller" button within this listing. We will try to reply within 24 hours. Otherwise you can order right now (inclusive of shipping options) from the "Add to Basket" button to the right.
Publicado por Windsor, 2004
ISBN 10: 0754095487 ISBN 13: 9780754095484
Librería: Michael Moons Bookshop, PBFA, Whitehaven, CUMBR, Reino Unido
Miembro de asociación: PBFA
Hardcover. Condición: Fine. No Jacket. Large print edition, 2004, of a 2003 title. Pictorial boards fine. Pages very clean & tight. No inscriptions. Illustrated. 474 pages.
Publicado por Hodder & Stoughton, 2003
Librería: Jeff 'n' Joys Quality Books, Redcar, Reino Unido
Original o primera edición
Hardback. Condición: Very Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Fine. First. First UK edition with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing. Price still on dustjacket. Unread. A biography of the late, great arch-goon, author, artist, poet and raconteur. IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH.
Publicado por Hodder & Stoughton, London,, 2003
Librería: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia
First edition. Hardcover, octavo, (xi, 435pp)., monochrome plates. Minor wear; a few faint scattered spots on text block edges; mild rubbing and wear to dustwrapper edges. Very good to near fine and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. 'Some years back, Humphrey Carpenter made merry with an account I provided of the Marx brothers, declaring that the Marx brothers "don't need a biography" - comedians should be left to speak for themselves. None more so, one might have thought, than Spike Milligan, who has committed seven volumes of his own reminiscences to print, as well as more than 50 other books. There have also been several previous biographies of Britain's chief Goon and master of misrule, so why another? Well, you can't get enough of a good thing. His appeal is, I am afraid, something of a male thing, though some women did "get it", most prominently, Spike's three wives, who had to balance the days of wit and laughter with the nights, and days, of dread melancholy, depressed silence and a locked door, with occasional telegrams emanating room to room, beseeching: "Please send up some tea." Milligan always fretted at the description of himself as a "tortured genius", but he was certainly tormented, throughout his creative life, by a manic-depressive condition, which took him in and out of treatment, though, as Carpenter attempts to follow the twisted skein, he ruefully concludes that some spells in Gestapo-like asylums might have been made up. Research, in this case, consists of following the paper trail of scripts and BBC arcana, and the oral trail of old mates, male and female, spiced up with an extended talk with mother and son of one of Spike's long-concealed extra-marital affairs. .He was, in a way, the total comedian, the one who understands how deeply absurd his own endeavours are. As Carpenter writes: "He could make anyone laugh except himself." It was this, I think, that constituted his greatest strength, the fact that he knew no borders in comedy, and spewed out, in his manic moments - and they were as many and prolonged as his depressions - endless screeds of gags, jokes, mad characterisations and impossible plots. Perhaps this also explains the resistance of many women to his humour - do women tend to find the idea that the world is chaos and society full of insane maniacs threatening rather than funny, more so than men?.The American comics had the mighty machine of Hollywood to spread their message. Spike had John Snagge and the crazy guys who made bumps and squeaks with spoons and egg-beaters in BBC basements. But I would still like to see a rerun of the infamous "Q" series: Milligan as "Mrs Rita Goldberg of Golders Green playing a cash register while wearing a large plastic nose".' - Simon Louvish.
Publicado por Lond. Hodder and Stoughton., 2003
Librería: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
Original o primera edición
Or.bds. Dustjacket. 435pp. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Spike Milligan was a genius of British comedy & was for 5 decades the country's most influential comics. From his Goon Show characters of the 1950s to his surreal comedy TV series Q that ran until 1982.
Publicado por HODDER AND STOUGHTON FIRST EDITION 2003, 2003
Librería: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, Australia
HB GREY BOARDS FINE PP455 DW FINE 8V0 From his childhood in India.
Publicado por Hodder & Stoughton, 2003
ISBN 10: 0340826118 ISBN 13: 9780340826119
Librería: Alpha 2 Omega Books BA, Southampton, HANTS, Reino Unido
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First UK edition-third printing. Fine condition.Hodder & Stoughton,2003.First UK edition-third printing(3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4).Grey hardback(silver lettering to the spine,small nick on the edge of the cover) with Dj(small crease,scratch and nick on the Dj cover),both in fine condition.Illustrated with b/w photos.The book is new with a small nick and light shelf wear on the outer edges of the pages,small pencil mark impression on the edge of the first page of the book.Price clipped.443pp including List of illustrations,bibliography,source notes,index. This is another paragraph Product Description: Spike Milligan was one of Britain's best-loved comics as well as one of the most original. In this reassessment of Spike's life and career, biographer Humphrey Carpenter has - through copious research and access to many of those closest to the great man - unearthed a character who could be as difficult and contradictory as he was generous and talented. The creator of The Goons was to influence a whole generation of comics, yet was never to feel fully valued. His periods of depression were matched by periods of high creativity - there were poems, novels, volumes of biography, as well as a television series and a one-man show as Spike searched for his best means of expression. There was also, as revealed here, his inveterate womanising. Married three times and with four children to whom he was devoted, two illegitimate children were to remain barely acknowledged.
Publicado por Hodder & Stoughton, 2003
ISBN 10: 0340826118 ISBN 13: 9780340826119
Librería: Alpha 2 Omega Books BA, Southampton, HANTS, Reino Unido
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First UK edition-third printing. Fine condition.Hodder & Stoughton,2003.First UK edition-third printing(3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4).Grey hardback(silver lettering to the spine) with Dj(small crease,scratch and nick on the Dj cover),both in fine condition.Illustrated with b/w photos.Nice and clean pages as new with a small crease and nick on the edges of the pages.Price un-clipped.443pp including List of illustrations,bibliography,source notes,index.Heavy book.
Publicado por Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, UK, 2003
ISBN 10: 0340826118 ISBN 13: 9780340826119
Librería: powellbooks Somerset UK., Ilminster, SOM, Reino Unido
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. In this first major biography since Milligan's death in February 2002, Humphrey Carpenter draws more fully than ever before on Spike's writings and those closest to him to chart the life of this most complex man. He uncovers a personality which could be as difficult, contradictory and misanthropic as it was passionate, sensitive and inspired. A good, tight copy.
Publicado por Hodder & Stoughton, 2003
ISBN 10: 0340826118 ISBN 13: 9780340826119
Librería: Alpha 2 Omega Books BA, Southampton, HANTS, Reino Unido
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near fine. First UK edition-first printing. Fine/Near fine.Hodder & Stoughton,2003.First UK edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2).Grey hardback(silver lettering to the spine,two small nicks and dent on the edges of the spine and cover) in fine condition, with Dj(small crease and nicks on the edges of the Dj cover) in near fine condition.Illustrated with b/w photos.Nice and clean pages as new with a small ink mark on the outer edges,light shelf wear on the Dj cover.Price un-clipped.443pp including List of illustrations,bibliography,source notes,index.First edition.Heavy book.
Publicado por Hodder & Stoughton, United Kingdom, 2003
Librería: Ann's Old Town Books, Swindon, Reino Unido
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Spike Milligan: The Biography by Humphrey Carpenter, Hardcover, First UK Edition (2003). This is a true first edition. The print run reads: 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. Book in very good condition, in a similar unclipped dust jacket. The book shows very minor bumping to the spine ends, and the dust jacket shows some slight shelf wear. Overall a very good, tight and clean copy of this book. (See pictures). For many people, Spike Milligan was regarded as a genius of British comedy.
Publicado por Hodder & Stoughton, 2003
Librería: Collectors Bookstore, Antwerpen, Belgica
Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Spike Milligan Special Collection by Humphrey Carpenter. Published by Hodder & Stoughton in 2003. Hardcover. Spike Milligan was one of Britain's best-loved comics as well as one of the most original. In this reassessment of Spike's life and career, biographer Humphrey Carpenter has - through copious research and access to many of those closest to the great man - unearthed a character who could be as difficult and contradictory as he was generous and talented. Collectible item in very fine condition.