Rumpole a la Carte
by MORTIMER, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0670832847
- ISBN 13
- 9780670832842
- Seller
-
Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
John Mortimer is a playwright, novelist, and former practicing barrister who has written many film scripts as well as stage, radio, and television plays, the Rumpole plays, for which he received the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited . He is the author of twelve collections of Rumpole stories and three acclaimed volumes of autobiography.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45107
- Title
- Rumpole a la Carte
- Author
- MORTIMER, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0670832847
- ISBN 13
- 9780670832842
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books;
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