Buy this book on-line FISHER**, JOHN: : Tommy Cooper: Always Leave Them Laughing. **LONDON.HarperCollinsEntertainment,2006. ISBN 9780007215102.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1.] FINE+/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip (£18.99) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated,subject's b/w+colour portrait photographic illustrated dw/dj,with black+grey and red gilt lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, would appear unread apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain grey with Cooper's black silhouette illustrated endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,ix-xxivpp+1-470pp [paginated] includes illustrations list/table, acknowledgements,preface,14 chapters,16pp contemporary biographical b/w+colour photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp168/9 and pp280/1 respectively,and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,contents list/table,and 2pp blanks at rear.
More than just a comedian,Tommy Cooper was a born entertainer.Working in a golden age of British comedy,Cooper stood - literally - head and shoulders above the crowd,and had a magical talent for humour that defied description.
With a love of laughter stemming from a magic performance gone wrong when he was in his teens, Cooper enlisted in the army in 1939 and began to perfect his comic timing on his army colleagues in the Egyptian desert.The man with the fez was born.
Cooper was at the heart of the thriving British variety scene,adored by his fellow professionals.
But there was a man behind the laughter that few people saw.John Fisher was Cooper's friend and colleague and witnessed first-hand the moments of self-doubt and inadequacy that contrasted with the genial exterior.Until his tragic death,which occurred in the middle of his act on live television in 1984,Tommy Cooper lived in constant fear of the day he would be 'found out' by his audience.He could never believe the accolades that came so thick and fast from every direction,and died to the sounds of laughter that he never really believed.
Supplementing his own intimate knowledge with material accessed for the first time from the archives of Tommy's agent and manager,Miff Ferrie,and with the full co-operation of the Cooper family,John Fisher's warm,honest and insightful account brings alive the man behind the comedic mask in this definitive biography of a comedy legend.
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 1.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, subject's b/w+colour portrait photographic illustrated dw/dj,with black+grey and red gilt lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,would appear unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,original,plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain grey with Cooper's black silhouette illustrated endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,ix-xxivpp+1-470pp [paginated] includes illustrations list/table, acknowledgements,a Preface,14 chapters,16pp contemporary biographical b/w+colour photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp168/9 and pp280/1 respectively,and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,a contents list/table,and 2pp blanks at rear.
More than just a comedian,Tommy Cooper was a born entertainer.Working in a golden age of British comedy,Cooper stood - literally - head and shoulders above the crowd,and had a magical talent for humour that defied description.
With a love of laughter stemming from a magic performance gone wrong when he was in his teens, Cooper enlisted in the army in 1939 and began to perfect his comic timing on his army colleagues in the Egyptian desert.The man with the fez was born.
Cooper was at the heart of the thriving British variety scene,adored by his fellow professionals.
But there was a man behind the laughter that few people saw.John Fisher was Cooper's friend and colleague and witnessed first-hand the moments of self-doubt and inadequacy that contrasted with the genial exterior.Until his tragic death,which occurred in the middle of his act on live television in 1984,Tommy Cooper lived in constant fear of the day he would be 'found out' by his audience.He could never believe the accolades that came so thick and fast from every direction,and died to the sounds of laughter that he never really believed.
Supplementing his own intimate knowledge with material accessed for the first time from the archives of Tommy's agent and manager,Miff Ferrie,and with the full co-operation of the Cooper family,John Fisher's warm,honest and insightful account brings alive the man behind the comedic mask in this definitive biography of a comedy legend.
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