First Printing by Hope Bob (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. True first British printing, undated, however circa 1954. With original unclipped jacket (10/6). Profusely illustrated. Jacket has patchy edge/shelf wear, few small marks, little patchy loss (mainly to head/tail of spine and to corners), fading to spine, mild foxing to reverse (white side), creasing/rubbing to edges, pushing/bumping to corners, few very small (approx. 5mms) tears and is in only good condition. Boards are near fine (having been well protected by the jacket) with a hint of pushing to corners and very minor pushing to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Neat gift inscription and date in pen to front end-paper. Pages bit tanned. End-papers tanned. Top of pages slightly dusty with (quite) severe foxing. Odd small mark/mild foxing to page edges and bottoms. Odd small mark/spots of foxing to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine condition gray boards/black cloth spine/gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated/photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Bob Hope; Preliminary Page Quote; Author Dedication; Preface and Closing Credits. Illustrated with sections of black-and-white photographic plates. "Bob Hope has been cheered and loved by America's fighting men and women for at least two generations. Through ten presidents and three wars he has been a moving target wherever the United States needed a clay pigeon. On battlefields from North Africa, Europe, and the South Pacific to Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf, Bob has been shot at and bombed on, sometimes by the enemy. [The book] is Bob's story of beign there with the jokes at every vital point during the last half-century of America's history. The world is his vaudeville circuit, and no one has been safe from his barbs, from presidents to dictators. He has counted among his friends almost everyone worth knowing, from Rita Hayworth to Brooke SHields, from Franklin Roosevelt to George Bush. He risked his career during the McCarthy era with lines like: "Joe McCarthy just got the names of two million more Communists. SOmeone gave him a copy of the Moscow telephone directory." And he was in the middle of the controversy over the Vietnam War. When the United States got in trouble in Lebanon and the Persian GUlf, he heard the bugles again and was abouard a military transport, on his way to entertain the troops, before his idiot cards were dry. It's all here, the fun, the laughs, the heartache, the danger, reflected in the longest continuous career at the top of show business since Methuselah was doing two a day. Now, at eighty-seven, Bob Hope can say: "Ive known most of the great personalities of our time, met thousands of men and women in uniform, and had as guests on my shows some of the most beautiful women in the world. If I had my life to live over again, I wouldn't have the strength. But I'd like to try." Reading this book is the closest you can come to living it with him." - From the inner front dust jacket flap.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As new condition gray boards, black cloth spine, and gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped photographic and color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Bob Hope; Preliminary Page Quote; Author Dedication; Preface and Closing Credits. Illustrated with sections of black-and-white photographic plates. "Bob Hope has been cheered and loved by America's fighting men and women for at least two generations. Through ten presidents and three wars he has been a moving target wherever the United States needed a clay pigeon. On battlefields from North Africa, Europe, and the South Pacific to Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf, Bob has been shot at and bombed on, sometimes by the enemy. [The book] is Bob's story of beign there with the jokes at every vital point during the last half-century of America's history. The world is his vaudeville circuit, and no one has been safe from his barbs, from presidents to dictators. He has counted among his friends almost everyone worth knowing, from Rita Hayworth to Brooke SHields, from Franklin Roosevelt to George Bush. He risked his career during the McCarthy era with lines like: "Joe McCarthy just got the names of two million more Communists. SOmeone gave him a copy of the Moscow telephone directory." And he was in the middle of the controversy over the Vietnam War. When the United States got in trouble in Lebanon and the Persian GUlf, he heard the bugles again and was abouard a military transport, on his way to entertain the troops, before his idiot cards were dry. It's all here, the fun, the laughs, the heartache, the danger, reflected in the longest continuous career at the top of show business since Methuselah was doing two a day. Now, at eighty-seven, Bob Hope can say: "Ive known most of the great personalities of our time, met thousands of men and women in uniform, and had as guests on my shows some of the most beautiful women in the world. If I had my life to live over again, I wouldn't have the strength. But I'd like to try." Reading this book is the closest you can come to living it with him." - From the inner front dust jacket flap.