Is Your Face Red?

Embarrassing moments from the worlds of sport, politics, entertainment…

by Candy Baker

Waratah Press, 1984, [First Edition], ISBN 0949493074, black and white line drawing and comic strips in text, hardcover with illustrated boards

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, previous owners’ details stamped on front endpaper, foxing to half title page, (see photographs)

“Pity the Chicago lawyer whose money, furniture ‘phone and clothes were all stolen.  Left only with a raincoat, he put it on and went outside to get help.  He was arrested on suspicion of lewd behaviour.
In 1957 a newspaper in Pasadena, California, issued this outlook: “clear today except for early fog, followed by smog, followed by evening fog.”
In 1884 Frenchman Paul Herbert was 20 years into a life sentence before his case was finally reopened, after some more-observant-than-usual bureaucrat noticed that he had been convicted of murdering himself.”