Seeing Things: An Autobiography (SCARCE HARDBACK FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING SIGNED BY OLIVER POSTGATE)
Language: English
Published by Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 2000
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Seller: Greystone Books, Margate, United KingdomGreystone Books
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VG+/VG+. First edition, first printing in d/w not price clipped. SIGNED BY OLIVER POSTGATE, without dedication or inscrption on half-title page. Illustrated with photographs, and line-drawings by Peter Firmin. The autobiography of Oliver Postgate (1925-2008), the man responsible for 'Bagpuss', 'Noggin the Nog', 'Ivor the Engine' and 'The Clangers'. Minor lean to spine; else a very good plus copy, in a very good plus d/w, of a SCARCE first edition, first printing SIGNED BY OLIVER POSTGATE. D/w now protected in a detachable, non-adhesive, clear sheaf.
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- Title
- Seeing Things: An Autobiography (SCARCE HARDBACK FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING SIGNED BY OLIVER POSTGATE)
- Author
- Postgate, Oliver
- Publisher
- Sidgwick & Jackson, London
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- Very Good Plus
- Dust jacket
- Very Good Plus
- Binding
- Hard Cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0283063637
- ISBN 13
- 9780283063633
- Illustrator
- Peter Firmin
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Seller catalogs
- Biography and Autobiography, Performing Arts
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From his rapacious memory spring forth the details of an unconventional life, from early family memories (his father Ray started The Good Food Guide), education at Dartington Hall, a stint in prison as a conscientious objector in the Second World War, through a succession of jobs until he found the perfect blend of acting, writing and invention in the formative years of children's television. With artist Peter Firmin, and working from a disused cow byre in Canterbury utilising anything that came to hand, they created a dozen or so worlds that have never gone away, from Noggin the Nog and Ivor the Engine to The Clangers (created and screened originally at the time of the Apollo moonshot). If your penchant is Bagpuss, then nearly 300 pages of personal history pass, at times as baggy as the saggy old cloth cat himself, but the background details are fascinating, such as the fact that the humourless Professor Yaffle was based in part on philosopher Bertrand Russell.
Determinedly unquestioning of his art, Postgate's life leaps off the page with a beguiling conviction, particularly when describing an epiphanic "peak experience" after an operation, which caused him to alter his view of the world and himself, and gave rise to the book's title. Dropped unceremoniously by the BBC when they were deemed not to have the "hook" modern children desired, Postgate is now kept, in his anecdotage, by the wave of nostalgia which has engulfed his single-frame films, and which finally offers him a proper return for the pleasurable memories he's inspired in so many. In a world of increasing homogeneity, such creative mavericks deserve to be cherished, and read. --David Vincent
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