Author: BRAGG, MELVYN
Title: Rich - the Life of Richard Burton
Description: London, Hodder and Stoughton. 1988. (ISBN: 0340405376). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine copy which has a gift inscription to front endpaper, a decorative bookplate to front pastedown and age toning to page edges else else clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket is near Fine and is not price clipped. viii + 533 pages. 79 illustrations. There are many other biographies of Richard Burton and what sets this original biography apart is that Melvyn Bragg has discovered and summed up a man hidden until now from all but one or two of his closest friends, and even to them a mystery. From unpublished letters and memoirs, from new interviews with those who have never spoken, above all from 350, words of Burton's notebooks never before seen, a portrait emerges of a man of multitudes, of vast qualities, immense flaws, wonderful ambitions, crippling melancholy and illnesses, something of a scholar, a fighter and a reckless warrior who lived the life of a legend from his beloved Wales. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.10 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 16. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Keywords: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Dylan Thomas, John Gielgud, Rex Harrison, Marlon Brando, Laurence Olivier, Humphrey Bogart, Paul Newman 0340405376


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