New York: Viking Penguin, 1993. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. A collection of short stories chosen by the author, John Mortimer, as among his best work featuring the now legendary sleuth, Horace Rumpole, barrister at law, sixty-eight next birthday, Old Bailey hack, with a mind full of old murders, legal anecdotes and memorable fragments of the "Oxford Book of English Verse; a remainder mark on bottom edge of text, else a Fine, collectable copy in like dustjacket.

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John Mortimer is a playwright, novelist, and former practicing barrister who has written many film scripts as well as stage, radio, and television plays, the Rumpole plays, for which he received the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited . He is the author of twelve collections of Rumpole stories and three acclaimed volumes of autobiography.

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Bookseller: H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 004054
Title: THE BEST OF RUMPOLE
Author: Mortimer, John
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Printing, First U.S. Edition.
ISBN 10: 0670849782
ISBN 13: 9780670849789
Publisher: Viking Penguin
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1993
Keywords: MYSTERY, FIRST EDITION, SHORT STORIES, ENGLAND, LAWYERS, CRIME
Bookseller catalogs: Short Stories; Mystery; England;

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