In 1963, exactly fifty years ago, an unknown author took the book world by storm when publishing her autobiography at the tender age of nineteen. It stormed to the top of the non fiction Best Sellers list, creating a literary sensation en route and was published in twelve other countries including the USA. The teenage author embarked on a major author tour of every country that had bought her book, immediately becoming a cult figure in the global media, the wildfire publicity campaign culminating in the paparazzi hanging ...
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In 1963, exactly fifty years ago, an unknown author took the book world by storm when publishing her autobiography at the tender age of nineteen. It stormed to the top of the non fiction Best Sellers list, creating a literary sensation en route and was published in twelve other countries including the USA. The teenage author embarked on a major author tour of every country that had bought her book, immediately becoming a cult figure in the global media, the wildfire publicity campaign culminating in the paparazzi hanging from the trees outside her family home, television appearances in most every country that had television and multi page spreads in all the glossies including LIFE magazine and PARIS MATCH. Being the the daughter of LORD CLANMORRIS an impoverished Irish peer who was also the notable thriller writer author JOHN BINGHAM, and MADELEINE BINGHAM the novelist and playwright, Charlotte had grown up in a literary household yet no one in her family had expected her to burst upon the literary world in such a sensational fashion at such a tender age, a debut that left many Establishment figures speechless seeing the book 'taking the lid of Society' and thus in some way as a betrayal of the author's own class and background. The book is of course nothing of the sort. What it is is hilariously funny, inocent, highly original and touching and as a result it became an icon for the young of all classes. It was in fact considered to be a work serious enough for certain Scandanavian universities to include it in their curriculum not only as an important social document but as a work of literary merit. Fifty years on it is still remembered with enormous affection by everyone who read it and heard about it at the time, whether they read it as a hardback book or as a serialisation in The People, a Sunday newspaper more famous for its sensational journalism than its literary merit, the book being chosen personally by the Editor simply because as he confessed he had never read anything so funny or so touching. In its time CORONET AMONG THE WEEDS has been compared to THE CATCHER IN THE RYE and not without good reason since both are wonderful statements of the hopes and beliefs of contemporary youth. To disprove some of her critics who claimed the book to be a fluke and Miss Bingham to be a one trick literary pony, the young author went on to become one of the best selling and best loved authors of her generation, having to date written over forty works of published fiction as well as countless successful television, stage and film scripts in collaboration with her husband the actor and writer TERENCE BRADY, also publishing the autobiograhical sequel to her first book, CORONET AMONG THE GRASS, another best seller that she and her husband finally adapted for television as the chart topping comedy series NO HONESTLY. The humour in the book is as fresh as the day it was minted, as does the originality and honesty of the author's perception.
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Add this copy of Coronet Among the Weeds to cart. $16.99, very good condition, Sold by Brit Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Milton Keynes, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2019 by Bloomsbury Publishing.
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Add this copy of Coronet Among the Weeds to cart. $17.78, good condition, Sold by Reuseabook rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester, GLOS, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2014 by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
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Add this copy of Coronet Among the Weeds to cart. $20.20, good condition, Sold by Midtown Scholar Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harrisburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1963 by Random House.
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1963; William Heinemann hardcover; with tearing to the dust jacket Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.
Add this copy of Coronet Among the Weeds to cart. $25.00, very good condition, Sold by Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Springfield, MA, UNITED STATES, published 1963 by Random House,.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. B0000CLNIS. First printing. Spine slant, else very good in a very good (minor edge wear and age toning, fading along the spine) dust jacket.
Add this copy of Coronet Among the Weeds to cart. $47.94, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2014 by Createspace Independent Pub.
Add this copy of Coronet Among the Weeds. (Signed) to cart. $61.29, fair condition, Sold by Burwood Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Wickham Market, SUFFOLK, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1963 by Heinemann.
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Fair. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 156. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered gilt on spine. Signed presentation on the title page to the author's sister and her husband, Jonathan Goodwin, "Darling Suzanne and Johnny, with love, a small book with a large kiss for both of you, Charlotte 1963." Slight sunning at spine ends, otherwise very good in used and chipped, very good minus dust jacket, with slight loss at spine ends and some nicking at the top edges.
