Product Description: Babies hatch from eggs, bubble from cauldrons, are fished from rivers, emerge in the cabbage patch, sit atop clouds, and ride in zeppelins. They play instruments, drive automobiles, fly in balloons, harvest the fields; an anarchistic world of baby heaven...read more

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With an introduction by the author, this volume includes three memoirs. 'Scouse Mouse' is a story of the author's 1930s childhood in a middle-class Liverpudlian household. 'Rum, Bum and Concertina' describes Melly's National Service as one of the most unlikely naval ratings. 'Owning Up' shows how he slipped into the world of the jazz revival.

Product Description: Famous as a jazz-singer, Melly is less well-known for his life-long passion for fishing, and especially on the fly for trout. These humorous, poetic memories of what Melly believes to be his happiest hours, complete the picture of a very diverse man.

Famous as a jazz-singer, Melly is less well-known for his life-long passion for fishing, and especially on the fly for trout. These humorous, poetic memories of what Melly believes to be his happiest hours, complete the picture of a very diverse man.

Product Description: George Melly narrates the history of Surrealism and describes his love affair with the movement and its native city.

Product Description: Written in 1970 at the point when the Pop Arts movement, begun in the 1950s and culminating in the 60s, finally lost momentum, this book is a survey of the arts trends of the preceding 20 years. The style is humorous and provocative...read more

Product Description: Book by Melly, George

Paintings and commentary explore the world of such famous lovers as Frankie and Johnnie, Tristan and Isolde, Chopin and George Sand, Virginia Woolf and Victoria Sackville-West, and Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas