Buy this book on-line MILLIGAN,SPIKE - Ed by Norma Farnes**: : THE COMPULSIVE SPIKE MILLIGANLONDON.FOURTH ESTATE,2004. ISBN 0007193335.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NMINT/NMINT.[Wrapped and protected from day of purchase - virtually as new and unread,
apart from collation.] No owner inscrptn,
no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,
pale blue backround with Milligan's black ink cartoon and black lettering illustrated panels of dw/dj,with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - though there is light bumping with reciprocal creasing to both head+foot
of spine/backstrip.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents pristine.Sharp-cornered,bright,clean,publisher's original,plain black cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters and cartoon to spine/backstrip,blue-green headband,white sewn-in silk bookmark ribbon,and immaculate blue-green eps.8vo, viiipp+3-435pp [paginated] includes editor
foreword,6 sections/chapters,profuse subject related b/w illustrations+
photographs throughout the text and the book,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,contents list/table, acknowledgements,4pp blanks at rear.
'It was a proud day for the Milligan family as I was taken from the house."I'm too young to go," I screamed as Military Policemen dragged me from my pram,
clutching a dummy.At Victoria Station the R.T.O. gave me a travel warrant,a white feather and a picture of Hitler marked
"This is your enemy." I searched every compartment,but he wasn't on the train.'
The huge success of the Spike Milligan anthology 'The Essential Spike Milligan',
has inspired another raid on the original brilliant source.Milligan was one the most
prolific and mould-breaking comic writers of the 20thC,and this second anthology gives a further insight into his finest writing.
Norma Farnes,Spike's manager for many years,has made the selection and this time
she has put in Spike's favourites.This highly personal collection includes more of the best from his war memoirs and novels,his journalism,his children's stories,poetry and drawings plus a wonderful collection from his voluminous correspondence from the 1960's onwards with such varied recipients as the Director-General of the BBC,Marty Feldman and the GPO.A compulsive read for all Milligan fans.
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