anstey pseud (5 Ergebnisse)

FIRST EDITION. Half title. viii, 439pp. Orig. green cloth, blocked in black, spine lettered in gilt. Ownership inscription in ink on leading pastedown, blind stamp of W.H. Smith Lending Library in blind on leading f.e.p. Sadleir 46; Wolff 158. One of its author's more serious works, this novel concerns a struggling author who passes off a more successful friend's manuscript as his own. Ironically, Anstey was accused of plagiarising Follett Synge's book Tom Singleton.

FIRST EDITION. Half title, illus., 2pp ads. Orig. blue cloth, blocked in black, lettered in gilt; fore-edge sl. rubbed, spine sl. darkened. Sadleir 48; Wolff 161.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. Autograph letter signed, 1p. 8vo, [London] (16 Duke Street Mansions), 3 November 1902. "I have so much to attend to just now with rehearsals all day that I fear your Autograph Album might be lost or mislaid if you sent it to the Theatre." But, if she sends it along, he will write his name in it "with pleasure " The "Dear Madam" he addresses was the 15-year-old daughter of a retired licensed victualler, younger sister of the actress Maud Gill (1883-1950), who began her career with Herbert Beerbohm Tree and made her name playing Thirza Tapper in Eden Phillpotts The Farmer's Wife (1916, taking the same role in Alfred Hitchcock's 1928 film). Mabel Hill (1887-1987) married in 1917 John Goss, a musician, and lived to be 100. F. Anstey (né Thomas Anstey Guthrie, 1855 1934) became famous overnight with his first novel, Vice Versa (1882), from reading which Anthony Trollope is said to have died laughing. The play he was rehearsing was Lyre and Lancet at the Royalty Theatre, a dramatisation with Kinsey Peile of Anstey's 1895 novel; it bankrupted the producer, C.B. Cochran. Inscribed by Author(s).

FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. [ii], ii, 172. Contemporary half red roan, marbled boards, spine divided by raised bands, second compartments gilt-lettered direct, marbled edges and endpapers. Rubbed (especially to joints), a few small scrapes. Bookplate of Chesterfield House to front pastedown. A humourous early example of a time travel novel. Sadleir 54.

FIRST EDITION. 8pp ads. Orig. brown cloth, blocked & lettered in black, spine lettered in gilt; sl. marking to boards. Sadleir 53; Wolff 167a. In this copy the advert for Conway's 'Called Back' is on the verso of the Contents leaf, rather than the verso of the title as in Wolff's copy.