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LOGUE,CHRISTOPHER**: : Prince Charming: A Memoir

LONDON.FABER and FABER LIMITED,1999.

ISBN 057119768X.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE. No owner inscrptn,no price-clip (£20.00) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,subject's biographical,sepia photographic illustrated upper panel of dw/dj with b/w,green and blue lettering,critics' review to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges slightly aged/tanned,but generally clean; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread? Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, dark blue paper-covered bds with bright,crisp,stamped white ink letters to spine/backstrip,a red+ yellow headband and immaculate plain sky blue eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii-xipp+3-340pp [paginated] includes illus list/table, acknowledgements,author's foreword, 3 Pts and an afterword,16pp contemporary,biographical-related b/w photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp116/7 and pp212/3 repectively,notes and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,contents list/table and Pts separator pages. 'Prince Charming' is the story of one of our great poets and literary mavericks.It tells,in frank detail and with irresistible relish,of its author's South England childhood and schooldays; his post-war stint in the army,which ended in disgrace and imprisonment; his years in Paris,during which he was involved in publishing Beckett and wrote pornography; his return to England, where he was imprisoned for the second time (as a member of the anti-nuclear Committee of 100), offended T.S. Eliot,participated in the new satire movement,promoted the public performance of poetry,and invented the poster poem. As well as Beckett,these pages give us unofficial glimpses of the likes of Alexander Trocchi,Maurice Girodias,Lindsay Anderson,Nell Dunn, Kenneth Tynan,Richard Ingrams,Peter Cook and the charismatic Pauline Boty,and there are enough characters among the less well-known - from the author's father to the Portobello Road street-trader known as 'Minky' Warren - to stock a lively novel.In effect,'Prince Charming' shows what it has been like for a twentieth century poet to have lived entirely on his wits,often in defiance of convention and close to disaster,but with sufficient spirit and luck to have contributed,as Christopher Logue has done so distinctively,to the cultural richness of our times.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.