Tommy Cooper's Just Like That! : Jokes and Tricks Hard cover - 1975

London: Jupiter Books. Very Good/Very Good. 1975. Hard Cover. 8vo 0904041301 Dust jacket price clipped, chipped, now in clear protective sleeve. Original cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling on spine. Bump to corner. No ownership inscription. Small rubbed area on ffep. 176pp, illustrated, clean and tight. `My father said the day I was born was a red letter day. He received final demands for the gas, electricity, rates and half a dozen assorted H.P. items. As I popped into the world, blinking at the light and wondering what to do for an encore, someone grabbed me by the legs, held me upside down and whacked me jolly hard. That was just for starters. Already I could see life was not going to be easy. I cried like a baby. Is it any wonder I soon took to the bottle?' Tommy Cooper - the very name brings a smile to your lips! - is without doubt the most inventive and funny British comedian since Charlie Chaplin. This is a view held not only by his many thousands of followers but by his show-business colleagues as well. Ever since his first professional engagement in 1947, Tommy Cooper's story has been one of success. His unique sense of humour and natural talent for visual presentation have made him into an artiste whose popularity has never waned. As the prince of comedian-conjurors, Tommy Cooper has long been promising us a book which would reveal something about the man underneath that fez! The eagerly-awaited result is Just like that! The Book of Cooper! A sort of an autobiographical monologue in which the great Mr Cooper recounts his life and times (three on the last count, and still going strong) and tells why he is who he is (and not someone else). .