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ref. rja650216 — UK8vo HBdw/djauthor SIGNEDillustrated1st edn2nd imp.Complete number line 2.Two circular adhesive removable stickers: 'BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week' and 'Waterstone's Signed by the author' to front panel of dw/dj. FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn but author's handwritten black felt-tip ink signature - without dedication - but year date 2010 to title page and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright crisp clean matt monochrome photographic illustrated dw/dj panels with red black lettering to front and white lettering to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Topfore-edges slightly aged/toned but still generally bright and clean; contents bright tight clean solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' cornersappears unread - apart from my collation. Publisher's bright crisp clean sharp-cornered original plain tan cloth boards with bright crisp blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate colour pictorial illustrated endpapers. UK8vo HBdw/djauthor SIGNEDillustrated1st edn2nd impix-xpp1-278pp paginated includes Illustrations list/tableauthor/subject's Introduction14 chapters32pp contemporary b/w illusbiographical photographs in 4 blocks of 8pp apiecebetween pp54/5 pp86/7 pp182/3 and pp214/15 respectively an Appendix and an Index; plus unpaginated half-title author SIGNEDdate title page a dedicationand a Contents list/table. Want more/similar Max HASTINGS titles please search my SIGNED NAVAL/MILITARY and GENERAL catalogues. Max Hasting's account of his family's tumultuous twentieth-century experiences embraces the worlds of fashion and newspapers theatre and TV pioneering in Africa and even - his father's most exotic stunt - being cast away on a desert island in the Indian Ocean.The author is the son of broadcaster and adventurer Macdonald Hastings and journalist and garden writer Anne Scott-James.One of his grandfathers was a literary editor while the other wrote plays essays and an enchanting memoir of his own Victorian childhood. His great-uncle was an African hunter who wrote verse and became one of Max's heroes. Hastings tells a richly picaresque story featuring guest appearances by a host of celebrities from Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad to John Betjeman and Osbert Lancaster who became his mother's third husband. 'All families are dysfunctional' Anne asserted impenintently to Max but the Hastingses managed to be more dysfunctional than most. His father roamed the world for newspapers and as a presenter for BBC TV's legendary 'Tonight' ptogramme while his mother edited 'Harper's Bazaar' became a famous columnist and wrote best-selling gardening books. Hastings brings together this remarkable cast of forebears 'a tribe of eccentrics' as he himself characterises them.By turns moving dramatic and comic the book portrays his own childhood fraught with rows and explosions in which the sudden death of a television set was only one highlight. His story will make a lot of people laugh and perhaps a few cry.It helps to explain why Max Hastings whose family has produced more than eighty books over three generations felt bound to follow their path of high adventure and popular journalism. Please contact seller @ rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk for correctinsured shipping/ Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please notestocks' actual shipping/Pp costs are adjusted and any difference is refundedafter the order's receipt and before the order's despatchespecially if the items are offered either Pp included/FREE. N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard US AIRMAIL to these destinations can nowin some casescost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. LONDON.HarperPress,2010. hardcover