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London: BBC, 1969. Please Email for further details. Not Signed or Inscribed. First Edition of This Edition 1986. Glossy Pictorial Card. Very Good Contents Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Black & White Illustrations. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Paperback.

London: Kimber, 1969. 191 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). B&w photographs. "(Tony Hancock) led a life fragmented by laughter and despair as he ceaselessly sought an unattainable truth in comedy until it ended in a dreary room in Australia with one final drink, one last handful of pills. But before that happened he created more laughter for more people than any other man of his generation. The search for the truth about this extraordinarily complex clown involves drawing on the memories and perceptions of writers like Alan Simpson and Ray Galton, who, in a sense, hewed the Half Hour Hancock out of the whole man, J.B. Priestley who put him, thinly disguised, into a novel, Phillip Oakes, who wrote him a screenplay, and Denis Norden who wrote material he convulsed audiences with for years. There are, too, the writer/performers like John Osborne, Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes, the comedians who knew him or worked with him like Harry Secombe, Joan Turner, Kenneth Williams and Graham Stark; showman… Read More

Ariel Books/BBC Publications, 1986. Soft Cover. Very Good. Text unmarked, signed by Freddie Hancock.

First edition. Octavo. 18 illustrations. Dust jacket (unclipped; chips to back panel). Very good. 191 pages.




Signed and inscribed by Freddie Hancock: "To Harry and Edith - My American Parents...only love given. Always, Freddie 1970."


Printed by Purnell and Sons, Ltd.