The Complete Yes Prime Minister

Lynn, Jonathan and Jay, Antony (editors)

ISBN 10: 0563207736 / ISBN 13: 9780563207733

Published by BBC Books, London, 1989

About this Item

SUBTITLED : ` The Diaries of the Right Hon. James Hacker Read more about : Chief Scientific Adviser, NATO Headquarters, Bernard Woolley, Leslie Potts MP, Peter Thorn, and Dean of Baillie College, Swansea, Halstead, Number Ten, and Chief Whip. 488 pages of British-inspired (or perhaps inspired-British) humour with a parlaimentary flair. A variety of letters etc. are reproduced as complements to the text. Cond : Paper wrapper is black. Red lettering. Three of the main actors in the BBC show appear on the front cover. Very little edge wear. Tight in binding, colours bright. Clean. P/O gift inscription on half-title. Pages lightly toned. Excellent reading cp[y. Quote (p. 175) : " There are 157 independent countries in the world. The FO has dealt with them for years. There's hardly an MP who knows anything about any of them. Show MPs a map of the woeld, and many of them would have difficulty finding the Isle of ._._._. ." Size: 8vo.

Seller Inventory # 009479

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Complete Yes Prime Minister
• Publisher: BBC Books, London
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0563207736
• ISBN 13: 9780563207733
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: B/W Drawings
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good +
• Seller catalogs:
  • Humour

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Synopsis

'Scalpel-sharp in observation, deceptively simple
in construction... at its frequent best
Yes Prime Minister exhibits the classical perfection of a
Mozart sonata' - Richard Last in The Times

'Its closely observed portrayal of what goes on in the
corridors of power has given me hours of pure joy'
- Rt Hon. Margaret Thatcher MP

'Yes Prime Minister... is not only a continuing marvel of
editing by Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay but also a
collector's must' - John Coldstream in the Daily Telegraph

'Yes Prime Minister is a comedy in a class of its own'
- Celia Brayfield in The Times

Review

"Scalpel-sharp in observation, deceptively simple
in construction... at its frequent best
Yes Prime Minister exhibits the classical perfection of a
Mozart sonata" (Richard Last The Times)

"Its closely observed portrayal of what goes on in the
corridors of power has given me hours of pure joy" (Rt Hon. Margaret Thatcher MP)

"Yes Prime Minister is a comedy in a class of its own" (Celia Brayfield The Times)

"Yes Prime Minister... is not only a continuing marvel ofediting by Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay but also a
collector's must" (John Coldstream Daily Telegraph)