About this title: The television screenplay of Potter's "play with music, in six parts", which was first broadcast in 1978. Set in the 1930s, it concerns the amorous and geographical wanderings of a travelling sheet-music salesman, who is both fortunate and unfortunate enough to believe in the songs in his suitcase.
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Edition: First U.S. edition. Price $5.95 stated on back cover.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Quartet Books Ltd., New York
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780704333949ISBN:0704333945
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. First edition. 224 p. Illustrated with stills from the MGM film. Wonderfully comic, yet poignant, story of a sheet music salesman who sets out to prove that real life CAN be like a movie musical. This is the original book written by screenwriter Dennis Potter, who also scripted the MGM movie version starring Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters. read more
Binding: Non-Book
Publisher: MGM/UA Home Video, Culver City, California
Date Published: c. 1981
Description: Video is almost as new. Minor wear and soil on the slipcase. VHS Video. NTSC Format (US & Canada Only). In cardboard slipcase. MOVIES / MUSICALS. Starring Bernadette Peters and Steve Martin with Jessica Harper, Vernel Bagneris, John McMartin & Christopher Walken. Choreography by Danny Daniels. In Metrocolor, approximate running time 1 hr. 48 minutes. Martin is a Depression-era sheet-music salesman...Th ough life steadily worsens for him and his schoolteacher mistress, Bernadette Peters, he goes ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780571178216ISBN:0571178219
Description: Good. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Quartet Books
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780704323001ISBN:0704323001
Description: Good. Ex library Page colour-Slightly discoloured in accordance with book age. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! read more
Description: 1st. "His attempts to prove that life is a bowl of cherries make for a wonderfully comic, heartrendingly sad story, which has been transformed into a film by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. " Pp. 196. 8 b/w photographs. P/b. Illustrated cover. Slight toning to rear cover. VG. read more
Edition: First Paperback Edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Quartet, London
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780704333949ISBN:0704333945
Description: New. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Film tie-in edition, released to coincide with the MGM movie adaptation of Potter's book. The film was never as popular as the 1979 BBC TV series starring Bob Hoskins, and the forerunner of other Potter musical fantasies such as 'The Singing Detective' and 'Lipstick on Your Collar'. An unread copy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Quartet Books
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780704323001ISBN:0704323001
Description: Good. Page colour-Slightly discoloured in accordance with book age. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! read more
Description: Fair. 0704333945 BARELY ACCEPTABLE. Trade paperback. Shelf and edgewear, creasing. Chip and chewed spot on lower cover and page corenrs. A rough, beat up copy but intact and readable. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780571178216ISBN:0571178219
Description: New. The television screenplay of Potter's "play with music, in six parts", which was first broadcast in 1978. Set in the 1930s, it concerns the amorous and geographical wanderings of a travelling sheet-music salesman, who is both fortunate and unfortunate... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Charles River Books
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780704333949ISBN:0704333945
Description: New. 0704333945. NEW unread copy in as new condition, May have light shelf wear. Ships Within 24 Hours. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED! ; 200 pages. read more
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