Peter Edited Cook William (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Arrow Book Edition. Paperback. For his many friends and fans, Peter Cook was quite simply the funniest man they'd ever met. Cook's unique gift for laughter and the way he changed the British sense of humour forever has been celebrated in severl posthumous biographies, but until now there's been no book by Cook himself. This is it. This collection gathers together the treasures of Cook's comic career, from school and university via Beyond the Fringe, alongside, Alan Bennett, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore, to his surreal, satirical journalism for Private Eye. Illustrated with his own drawings, this book is the definitive collection of the wit, humour and genius of Peter Cook. Illustrated. 429 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Magazine. Octavo. 48pp. Stapled wrappers. Spotting on the spine with light edgewear, near fine. Contributors include Margaret Secrist, Neville C. Johnson, Ilmars Uldis Purens, Herb Barrett, Laurence McCarty, Emilie Glen, Margaret Gibson, Marten Robbins, John Burnett Payne, Thomas Kretz, William Battrick, R.L. Tyler, Dolores Stewart Anderson, Lynn Strongin, Michael DeVitis, R.L. Walford, Leonard Opalov, George Flynn, Ted Sandler, Anthony Edkins, Pat Kennedy Brehm, S.L. Friedman, Jerene Cline, Douglas Barbour, Vaughn L. Duhamel, Tracy Thompson, Len Dickey, Charles Shaw, Leslie Woolf Heley, Peter Thomas, George Gott, Carole Simonsen, Dorothy Dalton, Madeline Bass, R.L. Cook, D.J. Coombs, Forrest Anderson, Joseph Semenovich, Jess Perlman, Morris Kirschstein, L. Radsliff, Naomi Grady, Bill Meissner, L.W. Michaelson, and A. Spencer Schwartz.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black paper covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back, racing green end papers. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 389 pp. Fine condition book in Fine condition photographic dust wrapper with some sun fading to spine and rear margins, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 1844134008 BIO (Résumé, Memoir).