Clinging To the Wreckage

by Mortimer, John

John Mortimer is a playwright, novelist, and former practicing barrister who has written many film scripts as well as stage, radio, and television plays, the Rumpole plays, for which he received the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. He is the author of twelve collections of Rumpole stories and three acclaimed volumes of autobiography.

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London: Penguin Books, 1983. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Tight square and clean, flat spine, 256 pages plus 12 pages of b & w plates, Very Good Plus condition with minor edge wear. Check out the scans. . Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good Plus.
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New Haven: Ticknor & Fields, 1982. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Light foxing on top page edges, near fine in a near fine price-clipped dustwrapper with short tears on spine ends. By the man who brought you "Brideshead" and the Rumpole stories.
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