Verlag: Trojan Magazine, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1950
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Magazine. Cover by Robert McGuire. Octavo. Illustrated perfectbound wrappers. Small chips and tears at yapped edges, loss at the foot of the spine (affecting text), creases on wraps, very good. Features: "Screen Test for Murder" and "Cast as a Corpse" by Robert Leslie Bellem, "Death in Focus" by Herb Smith, "Avenger in Red" by Ellery Watson Calder, "Farmer's Slaughter" by Francis Lewis, "Curtain Call for Death" by Clive Criswell, "Flying Knives" by John J. Hendrix, "Written in Blood" by Anson Pinckney, and the comics "Dan Turner: Hollywood Detective" by Bellem and Plaisted, and "Queenie Starr: Glamor Girl of Hollywood" by Keats Petree.
Verlag: Greylands London Road Amersham. 18 November, 1956
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Manuskript / Papierantiquität
2pp., 12mo. 33 lines of text in blue ink. In good condition, lightly-aged. He writes that his family have 'all been listening to your third broadcast on Gandhi with pleasure and admiration'. He cannot imagine 'a better treatment of the subject', and is 'lost in admiration for the skill with which you pieced all these fragments together, and wove out of them a thrilling and convincing narrative [.] The old charwoman at Bow was a delight, and how sympathetic & interesting was Lord Templewood! But there wasn't a "dud" among all your many contributors, both the Indians & the English. [.] There was one voice missing from this astonishing record - the man who wouldn't meet Gandhi - Winston.' He is glad that Watson found his 'stuff so serviceable'. He ends by describing the series (which had been compiled with Maurice Brown for the Third Programme) as 'these works of art'.
Verlag: 20 Jubilee Place Chelsea London SW3. 13 October, 1956
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Manuskript / Papierantiquität
1p., 4to. Sixteen lines of closely-written text. The letter begins: 'On my return yesterday from a lecture tour in America I happened to hear of the series on Mahatma Gandhi that you have compiled, with Maurice Brown, for the Third Programme.' He complains that, although Watson had previously had his assurance that he was willing to participate in such it programme, it is 'rather hurtful to find that you have evidently decided to cut me out of the programme. There must, it is true, be many Indians who knew Gandhi better than I did; but among English people still living there are very few who can claim an earlier and a closer friendship - only, I think, Henry Polak & Horace Alexander.' He ends in paranoid style, by asking to know 'on what grounds you changed your mind!'.