Author: Pertwee, Bill,
Title: BESIDE THE SEASIDE - A Celebration of 100 Years of Seaside Entertainment.
Description: Collins and Brown, London, 1999, 1st edn., 144pp, sepia photo pictorial half title, coloured facsimile frontis, facsimiles, coloured and half tone ills. throughout, coloured endpapers, large format (11 x 9 inches approx.), laminated coloured pictorial montage boards with matching dustwrapper, an account of British seaside entertainment, the tradition of 100 years from the days of the Pierrots before WW1, the concert parties between the two wars and in more recent times the big star variety shows at the major resorts, with numerous illustrations of the stars, parties and troops, the towns and venues, and the posters and programmes, faintly bumped at lower tips, dustwrapper: lightly rubbwed at tips, very good plus in a near fine dustwrapper,

Keywords: british history performing arts seaside entertainment concert parties pierrots


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