TOMMY HANDLEY. KAVANAGH, TED IN SOUTH AFRICA

First Edition, Hodder And Stoughton, London, 1949. Hardback. Green Cloth boards, corners bumped, head and spine faded, title, author and publisher printed in black ink along the spine. Dust wrapper, worn, small tears and chips but otherwise still intact. Inside mostly clean and very good with occasional slight foxing. Edges foxed and endpapers tanned. Gift inscription dated "Christmas 1949" on blank front endpaper. Green cloth with some fading. Some staining to pages 94 & 95 which has run through to adjoining pages. With photographs. 255 pages with 32 pages of sepia plates. "The life story of Britain's beloved comedian", the Liverpool-born son of a Yorkshire dales cow-keeper, and star of ITMA. Highly collectable, now cover in a protective wrapper.