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This limited EASTON PRESS SIGNED edition of Sir John Mortimer's RUMPOLE OF THE BAILEY is bound in rich dark blue leather and signed by the author...THE BOOK IS NUMBERED and STILL IN ORIGINAL SHRINKWRAP!
Originally published in 1978, Mortimer's character Horace Rumpole, a criminal lawyer and "defender of muddled and sinful humanity" ruled by his wife Hilda "she who must be obeyed" is one of Britain's most beloved characters. This book was the beginning of a series of 12 books and a popular BBC series starring Leo McKern.
John Clifford Mortimer was born on 21 April 1923, and after three years at Harrow went to study law at Oxford. For six decades he has been one of Britain's most prolific and varied writers, producing dozens of novels, short stories, stage plays and scripts for television, radio and the cinema, all characterised by clever plots, witty dialogue and a dash of melancholy. For almost forty years he was also a highly successful barrister and one of the country's best-known advocates for civil liberties and free speech.
His first professional encounter with the cinema came during the war, when he wrote documentaries for the Crown Film Unit. His experiences there later formed the basis for his first novel, the 1947 thriller Charade which was made into the well known movie starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn.
Mortimer was made a Queen's Counsel in 1966, awarded a CBE in 1986 and knighted in 1998.
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Never opened, this volume comes sealed in the original shrink wrap with unused Book Plate and is in mint condition from a non-smoking home.
Easton Press specializes in exclusive premium leather-bound collector editions that are as beautiful to see as they are to read. Each bears a distinctive cover design, handsome readable typefaces, permanent satin ribbon page marker, thread sewn papers for strength and durability, beautiful illustrations, elegant gilded page edges, endsheets of rich moire fabric and long lasting high-quality aicd neutral paper.
The splendours and miseries of an old Bailey hack!
This review is from: Rumpole of the Bailey (Hardcover) In "Rumpole of the Bailey", John Mortimer has served up a veritable smorgasbord of short snappy tales that are the very best that British courtroom humour has to offer. Whether it's criminal trials in the old Bailey or civil trials in Chancery division, Horace Rumpole takes on all comers with a trademarked irreverent disdain for the sanctity of the law, the court, the judiciary and his learned colleagues at the bar. But, make no mistake, Rumpole's disarming attitude and appearance mask a razor sharp legal mind able to cut directly to the heart of the matter and an ability to draw on brutally cunning legal tactics which, for many American readers, will be reminiscent of the television detective, Columbo.
Whether Rumpole is in court or lighting up a cigar and quaffing a glass of Chateau Fleet Street at his favourite after-hours haunt, Pommeroy's Wine Bar, Rumpole is accompanied by an endearing supporting cast that is an integral part of the amusing, indeed often hilarious stories that Mortimer has produced - Guthrie Featherstone QC MP, the stiffly starched and prissy (yet often philandering) head of chambers; Claude Erskine-Brown, the slightly looser barrister who is head over heels in love with the only female member of chambers, the eloquent and deeply feminist Phillida Trant; Rumpole's wife, Hilda, the imposing "She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed"; and Percy Timson, the patriarch of a widespread London family of low-level criminals whose bumbling failures are destined to keep Rumpole supplied with a steady stream of defense briefs for as long as he cares to work.
Hilarious brain candy guaranteed to take you away from the worries of the workaday world for a blissful all-too-short few hours. Highly recommended.
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