ME:MOIR - VOLUME ONE.**

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean.matt,oyster+black illustrated dw/dj with monochrome subject/author's photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj,monochrome author's illustration to rear panel,with oyster+ white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - would appear unread? Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked oyster ink letters to spine/backstrip and author's own thumbnail drawings illustrated,immaculate endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,8-288pp [paginated] includes 20 chapters,profuse author's drawings/sketches/doodles throughout the text and the book,along with some b/w contemporary,subject's autobiographical photographs interspersed throughout too,and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title,title page with acknowledgements to verso of same,an introduction and author's b/w illustrated,chapter separator pages.See also rja536215 ('sunboiled onions') and other book ID rja536115 for a UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn example of this same title by this author. I was eight pounds when I was born,healthy and of good cheer,yet the midwife suggested that it might be a good idea for Mum to feed me on Complan,the weight-gaining food supplement.This she did,and I ballooned to a frightening ten stone by the age of three months.I became so corpulent so quickly that my mother was unable to pluck me from my cot and I was eventually prised out with an oar.To remedy the situation,a skip was later rented to accommodate my ever-increasing mass. Vic Reeves' vivid,enchanting,and utterly hilarious childhood memoir is a comic masterpiece and a stunning melange of whimsical reminiscences and imaginative reconstruction.Before there was Vic Reeves,there was a boy called James Moir,who was much the same as any other young lad.Obsessed with owning a pet crow,a master at writing his name and terrified of his father's immense moustaches,Jim begins his journey to adulthood in Yorkshire before being deposited in County Durham with an accent that not even the headmaster can avoid laughing at.Though he soon brings jollity to classrooms with his worm 'puppet',Jim also contracts a serious illness that he prefers to call consumption,though the doctors insist on referring to it as TB. Whether trying to escape the attentions of the infamous 'Randy Mandy',or getting a crash course in the tricky art of pig castration,the adolescent tribulations of the boy who would be Reeves are at once instantly familiar and compellingly strange.Well,do you know anyone else who counts chance encounters with both Jimi Hendrix and the Yorkshire Ripper among their personal rites of passsage? Peopled with a wonderful collection of warm,wicked and weird characters,Vic Reeves' memoir is as authentic as 'Cider with Rosie',as witty and inventive as Spike Milligan or Roald Dahl,and as unique as you'd expect from one of Britain's most exceptional comedy talents .Vic Reeves is one of the UK's most popular comedians,his TV successes with Bob Mortimer have included 'Vic Reeves Big Night Out','The smell of Reeves and Mortimer','Shooting Stars' and 'Families at War'. Please contact seller @ rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.