English eileen (9 Ergebnisse)

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. viii, 58pp. Pictorial light card covers, stapled through. Stains top front, light fold at bottom of front cover. Light chipping to edges and wear to covers. Internally, neat, clean, bright and tight. 4to.

(219 x 135). pp, 98, (2). Illustrated. Softbound. Loose coloured map of Switzerlnd tucked in. A very clean copy. Near fine.

RINALDO (Händeloper) Programmheft Gastspiel der Handel Opera Society London o.J., 22 SS. Pb. 8° mit Fotos und Kurzbiografien der Sänger, ordentlich erhalten - von 5 britischen Sängern/innen eigenhändig signiert.

Zustand: Very Good. Publisher's original stapled menthol green card wrap covers, russet title, author lettering and town illustrations to the the upper panel. Folio 11½'' x 8½''. ISBN 0900532327. Contains [x] 65 typed pages of text. Covers a little soiled and the corners turned-up and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as published. Member of the P.B.F.A. KENT [Faversham].…

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded twice for postage. Reads: 'Dear Miss Cond, / I have pleasure in sending you my signature. As you will see, it is quite an ordinary one. / Yours very truly / William Plomer'. The signature is in fact rather stylish in an understated way, and the underlining has two small curls in it. In ink on otherwise-blank reverse, by someone who misread the signature: 'William Ploms'. See Image.…

See her entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, small 4to. On laid light-brown paper. In good condition, with fold for postage. Reads: 'Dear Miss Cond, / Your nice letter was mislaid in my flitting from the Whitehall to the Victoria Palace, hence the delay in acknowledging it. / Many thanks for your good wishes / Sincerely / Greer Garson.' Eileen Cond was an enthusiastic autograph collector.…

Blackwood's entry in the Oxford DNB quotes H. P. Lovecraft's opinion that he was the author of 'some of the finest spectral literature of this or any age'. On post card with printed stamp. In good condition, lightly worn, on light-brown card. Addressed to 'Miss Cond, / Deer Park, / Honiton.' Apart from the signature, Blackwood has added quotation marks and dealt with two typing mistakes in autograph. Good firm signature. Reads: 'Savile Club, 69 Brook St, W. 1. / I must send my 'Thank You' [corrected from 'Your'] for the enchamnibg [sic, underlined, to indicate that it should be 'enchanting'] card, though my postbag prevents a longer word. You will, I know, understand and forgive. / Algernon Blackwood. / Dec 15/49.' See Image.…

See her Guardian obituary by Ronald Bergan, 'Britain's original "It" girl, who rose from shop assistant to movie star', 13 September 1999. Both items in good condition, lightly aged and folded for postage. Both letters with good content. Eileen Margaret Cond (1911-1984) of Honiton was an enthusiastic autograph collector, and she had an ability to draw a more than perfunctory response from her targets. ONE (1944 ALS): 2pp, 8vo. Addressed to 'Dear Miss Cond' and signed 'Chili Bouchier'. Begins: 'Just a wee line to thank you so much for your nice Xmas card which was forwarded to me in Egypt. [where she had been touring with ENSA] / I am home now safe & sound and, fortunately for me, on tour with a new play "Lady - Be Careful" so I can escape the flying bombs without feeling too guilty of running away from their horror.' Having a 'week out' before playing Bath, 'we decided to spend our week here and enjoy the antiquities'. She 'thoroughly enjoyed' her 'trip out East and, I think, it was appreciated by the "boys."' With reference to the war she feels things look 'grand all round now'. She hopes Cond is well and making her 'post-war plans. It's fun to do although they may all go wrong - as all plans persistently do. At least, that is my experience.' TWO (1962 TLS). 1p, 4to. Twenty-eight single-spaced lines. Addressed to 'My Dear Eileen' and signed 'Chili'. She has written a letter of protest against theatre closures to the Daily Express, and 'Yes, the Theatre Royal [Portsmouth?] was one of the casualties I had in mind'. I had another letter from someone from your district bewailing the apathy of the majority of people about the closing of the theatre.' She doesn't feel very hopeful: 'There doesn't seem to be much one can do about it except wait for the time when people will be sick of staying at home and watching the "goggle-box". But with new attractions like Telstar and colour TV, it doesn't look as if that time will ever come.' Her letter has 'brought a tremendous response from the public', and she has been 'deeply moved to learn how many unknown friends I have.' Despite the 'stunned silence at the audacity of an artist to raise a voice in protest', she will soon be working again. She makes a suggestion regarding those who wish to join her. She expresses the 'happiness and relaxation' she finds in Spain, before turning to her autobiography: 'The book is now finished, having re-written it once more, and I just don't know which publisher to send it to as it is all a bit peculiar. It has to be as my life has been. Not at all like anyone elses.' She is certain she will gain 'an inspiration' regarding the publisher, 'and in the meantime I have high hopes of placing a musical with a Spanish background which I have also written during the quiet times'. Bouchier did not publish an autobiography until 1996 ('Shooting Star'). The renewed interest resulted in an appearance on 'Desert Island Discs' and an episode of 'This is Your Life'.…

Good letters, the second with biographical content about a prolific yet elusive author. The recipient Eileen Margaret Cond (1911-1984) was an enthusiastic collector of autographs, with the ability to draw a more than perfunctory response from her targets. Both letters in good condition, on lightly aged paper folded for postage. Each bearing large stylized signature 'Francis Gerard' and addressed to 'Dear Miss Cond'. ONE (12 March 1950). 1p, 4to. He reports that he is 'busy on a new thriller which I have given the provisional title of HORNED HAVEN' (the title does not show up among Gerard's published works). 'The General Election in England was followed by us out here with an almost unbearable feeling of tension and, for my part, I realised that though I am now officially a citizen of this country that I will never make a good South African.' He reports 'a tremendous flap about the Seretse Khama business which seems to have been handled just about as stupidly as it could have been'. He is returning her bookplates, 'with Gérard, his mark, upon them, though I still don't know when you'll be able to stick the second one into TRANSPARENT TRAITOR. I gather the whole printing and publishing trade is in a parlous condition in England thanks to machinery being worn out and not replaced owing to Cripps' insistence on all such new tackle being for export only.' He ends with a warning regarding 'the temperature in Durban' for her father. TWO: 2pp, foolscap 8vo. A long letter. He has been 'wandering around Central Africa with a bunch of geologists and mining engineers', and finding her letter, is 'touched by the continuance of your long-range friendship'. There is 'little chance' of his producing another book for some time. 'When I do, it will be a very different kind of book from what I have written in the past.' The next two paragraphs describe his employment with the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa. 'My job is a peculiar one, half industrial relations and man management, half public relations. The AAC is the biggest mining group in the world. It is also an enormously powerful finance house. At the head of it sits Sir Ernest Oppenheimer who, despite his fantastic wealth, is a most charming and delightful old boy.' He describes how in his first year with AAC he 'travelled nearly 30,000 miles about Southern and Central Africa by aircraft, car, jeep, horse or on my own flat feet. I went underground in diamonds, gold, coal, copper and base metals. I stayed in palatial guest-houses or at lonely Jesuit missions in the bush. I went through m[a]laria, tsetse-fly country where you shot for the pot and kept a wary eye open for crocodile, leopard or buffalo and once, was fortunate to have my pygmy friends drive a gorilla for me. You do not shoot these. They are Royal Game and if you kill one it costs you a £600 fine.' He continues for a while before describing his family. A paragraph follows in which he claims not to have 'sold myself to Mammon'. He praises the 'Ernest Oppenheimer hospital for Africans at Welkom' as 'the finest thing of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere'. He winds up with a paragraph on his 'financial benefits' and another on his children's school results, the former beginning 'Well, there it is. This is why Francis Gerard has not appeared on the back of a book for some time.'.…