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AREN'T WE DUE A ROYALTY STATEMENT? - A Stern Account of Literary,Publishing and Theatrical Folk.

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AREN'T WE DUE A ROYALTY STATEMENT? - A Stern Account of Literary,Publishing and Theatrical Folk.

by GORDON, GILES:

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0701160225
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9780701160227
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,b/w portrait photographic upper wrap with superimposed,colour cartoon and white lettering,rear wrap b/w photographic author portrait similarly superimposed; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Both head+foot of spine/ backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore- edges bright and genrally clean; contents bright,tight and clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright,clean,publisher's original,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii-xiipp+1-352pp [paginated] includes Who's Who,cast list and order of events comprising 32 sections,acknowledgements; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication and 2pp blanks to rear. Giles Gordon,literary agent to the Prince of Wales and Adrian Mole,ex-publisher,novelist and theatre critic,has written an unguarded,witty and unothodox portrait of our literary life and times.A Scotsman who has spent most of his life in England,a publisher who turned his coat to become an agent,a novelist whose heart is in the theatre,a monarchist with anti-establishment views and connections with 'Private Eye',he has rubbed shoulders with the great and the good for thirty-odd years.With an unerring eye for the ridiculous,his memoir scampers lightly from awkward adolescence in Edinburgh to a grown-up picnic at Windsor Castle, from the gods at Stratford to the inner sanctum of the Garrick Club,from tea with Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett to lunch at 'Private Eye', from an interview with Joe Orton to the untold story behind the publication of Spycatcher.Overturning sacred cows and pricking egos along the way,he paints illuminating pen-portraits of a colourful cast from Prince Charles and Prince Andrew to Charles Laughton, Stevie Smith, B. S. Johnson, John Gielgud, Graham Greene, Robert Maxwell, Fay Weldon, Sue Townsend, Kinglsey Amis and many more. Giles Gordon insists that his memoir records people and events as he has encountered them.He believes he has left himself out of his iconoclastic narrative.Others may disagree.For,despite his subtlest intentions,the author of this lively expose above all reveals himself. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

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Title
AREN'T WE DUE A ROYALTY STATEMENT? - A Stern Account of Literary,Publishing and Theatrical Folk.
Author
GORDON, GILES:
Book Condition
Used - FINE.
Jacket Condition
FINE.
Quantity Available
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Edition
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0701160225
ISBN 13
9780701160227
Publisher
LONDON.CHATTO & WINDUS,1993.
Place of Publication
London
This edition first published
1993
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