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WEBB**, ROBERT: : HOW NOT TO BE A BOY. ** [Author SIGNED copy.]

SCOTLAND.EDINBURGH.CANONGATE BOOKS LTD.,2017.

ISBN 9781786890085.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.[Complete number line 1.] FINE-/FINE-.No owner inscrptn but author's handwritten black felt-tip ink signature - without dedication - to title page, and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean, matt,author/subject's portrait colour photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj with capitalised white-lettered title and capitalised red-lettered author name and critic's red+white-lettered review (J.K. Rowling); glossy spine/backstrip with thumbnail colour portrat photograph from front and similarly coloured+lettered author name+title as the front's and publisher's red illustrated colophon to foot of same.Negligible shelf-wear, minimal creasing to both top+lower edges of dw/dj - no major nicks or tears present,book has a slight lean.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain fluorescent pink endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn,1-328pp [paginated] includes an Overture, Acts ONE + TWO comprising 8 and 6 chapters respectively,16pp subject's contemporary autobiographical colour photographs in 1 block, between pp152/53; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,a dedication and contents list/ table. RULES FOR BEING A MAN.Don't Cry,Love Sport,Play Rough,Drink Beer,Don't Talk About Feelings.But Robert Webb has been wondering for some time now: are those rules actually any use? To anyone? Looking back over his life,from schoolboy crushes (on girls and boys) to discovering the power of making people laugh (in the Cambridge Footlights with David Michell and Olivia Colman),and from losing his beloved mother to becoming a husband and father,Robert Webb considers the absurd expectations boys and men have thrust upon them at every stage of life. Hilarious and heartbreaking,'How Not To Be a Boy' explores the relationships that made Robert who he is as a man,the lessons we learn as sons and daughters,and the understanding that sometimes you aren't the Luke Skywalker of your life - you're actually Darth Vader. Robert Webb has been a male for his whole life. As such,he has been a boy in a world of fighting,pointless posturing,and the insistence that he stop crying.As an adult man,he has enjoyed better luck,both in his work as the Webb half of Michell & Webb in the Sony award-winning 'That Mitchell & Webb Sound' and the Bafta award-winning 'That Mitchell & Webb Look',and as permanent man-boy Jeremy in the acclaimed 'Peep Show'.He also played Bertie Wooster in the acclaimed West End run of Jeeves and Wooster in 'Perfect Nonsense'.Robert has been a columnist for the Daily Telegraph and the New Statesman, and now lives in London with his wife and daughters,where he continues trying to be funny and to fumble beyond general expectations of manhood. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost 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. **

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.
Author SIGNED - without dedication.

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