Light shelfwear to edges and covers. Pages tight and clean but yellowed due to age. Spine has small creases. 591 pages. MMP Binding. Year: 1976. ISBN: 0205201042. The Life of a Ham. That's what W C Fields intended to call the autobiography he never got to writing himself. Now his grandson has masterfully assembled The Great One's notes, outlines, scrapbooks, letters, scripts and scenarios into this, the first entirely authentic portrait: W C Fields by Himself