Beside the Seaside
Rose, Clarkson
| Publication Date |
1960 |
| Publisher |
Museum Press, |
| Binding |
Hardback |
| Condition |
Very good copy in good dust jacket |
| SKU |
26118 |
| Notes |
Turquoise boards with gilt titles to the spine. Slightly sunned to edges. Dust jacket has nicks and chips to edges and is slightly dust marked to the white back panel. |
Description
Hardback. 142pp. With a foreword by W. Macqueen Pope. A history of seaside entertainment by the ‘last of the great actor-managers’. Dealing with the variety and musical turns of the early part of the twentieth century this book occasionally uses the n-word. Black and white photographs throughout including Tony Hancock, Stanley Holloway, Alma Cogan, Benny Hill as well as numerous clowns and Pierrot. Attractive colour illustrated dust jacket.
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