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HASTINGS**, MAX: : DID YOU REALLY SHOOT THE TELEVISION? [Author SIGNED copy.]

LONDON.HarperPress,2010.

ISBN 9780007271719.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2nd 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 black felt-tip ink signature - without dedication - a year date (2010),to title page and no price-clip (£20) to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,monochrome photographic illustrated dw/dj panels,with red+black lettering to front and white lettering to rear panels; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+ fore-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' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain tan cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate colour pictorial illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,2nd imp,ix-xpp+1-278pp [paginated] includes illustrations list/table,author/ subject's introduction,14 chapters,32pp contemporary b/w illus+biographical photographs in 4 blocks of 8pp apiece, between pp54/5,pp86/7,pp182/3 and pp214/15 respectively,an appendix,and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title,SIGNED+date title page,a dedication,and a contents list/table. 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 fom 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. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALtL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp.
Author's signature+date - without dedication.

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