Fry christopher author (12 Ergebnisse)
Verlag: Oxford University Press, New York, 1953
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Hardcover with decorated front board, no dust jacket, in very good condition for its age. Illustrations by Ronald Searle. Boards are slightly marked and corners and spine ends are a little bumped and rubbed. Page block is lightly foxed and blemished. Binding is sound and pages are c…lear. LW. Searle, Ronald (illustrator). Used.
Verlag: Methuen & Co., London, 1967
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Verlag: Methuen & Co., London, 1963
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. Good condition first edition hardcover from the private library of Arthur M. Volume I. Cockerill, with unclipped dust jacket in good condition. Jacket is marked and discoloured throughout, and edges are creased and nicked. Rear inner flap is dog-eared at… the lower leading edge. Page block is lightly tanned and foxed, and Ex-Libris label to FEP. Pages and text are clear and unmarked throughout. LW. Used.
Verlag: Pamphlet by the Northern Lights Press Devon undated but with inscription dated February Conclusion of ALS without date or place, 1975
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In den WarenkorbBoth items in good condition, lightly aged. PAMPHLET: 12pp, 8vo. Stapled in green wraps, printed on both sides of covers, and with drawing of Shaw by Hadfield, dated 1974, on front cover. Containing a few autograph emendations. Inscribed on front cover: 'To Christopher Fry, | from | Alan Hadfield, | Greetings! | Feby 1975'. A qu…irky and highly personal response to Shaw, combining anecdote, reminiscence and original poetry. A 'BACKWORD' reproduces two communications to Hadfield from Shaw, both from 1941, the first commending his 'neo-Elizabethan lilt', the second commending a bust he had sent him ('Whatever you do, don't be a gentleman-artist, or you will eat your heart out, and starve.'). The only copy of the pamphlet on OCLC WorldCat at the British Library. LETTER. Conclusion of Autograph Letter Signed ('Alan Hadfield'), presumably to Fry, on one side of 19.5 x 9.5 cm piece of paper. Numbered 3. Regarding sculptress he knew when living and teaching English in Jamaica, 'some dozen years ago', the wife of Norman Manley. Concludes: 'I should be greatly honoured if I could attempt a worthwhile portrait of you yourself, in the near future - | either here, or there!' From the Christopher Fry papers.
William Empson: Prophet Against Sacrifice
Fry, Paul H. (Author)/ Norris, Christopher (Introduction by)
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Routledge, 1991
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[Richard Church, poet and author.] Typed Poem, signed 'Richard Church', titled 'For Andrew Young. 1885-1971.'
Richard Church [Richard Thomas Church] (1893-1972), poet and author [Andrew Young (1885-1971), Scottish poet; Christopher Fry (1907-2005), playwright]
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In den Warenkorb1p, 4to. In good condition, lightly-aged. Folded three times. Sixteen-line poem, neatly typed (with one error overtyped an autograph proof mark separating two words) titled 'For Andrew Young. 1885-1971.' Signed at bottom 'Richard Church.' A charming poem, which was published in the Cornhill Magazine in 1971. In two sections, the… first of which reads: 'Dour old Scot from Edinburgh, | Whose theology was thorough | From Presbyterian first stage, | Then gentle in a vicarage.' (Young was a Church of England minister.) In the second section of the poem Church presents Young as 'A mystic amongst flowers and birds', who 'would turn | To worship at a wayside burn | Where some water-weed might serve | As thurible', and who 'could observe | His Maker in a buttercup, | And hold a humble daisy up | To bless his congregation'. From the papers of Christopher Fry, a friend of Young's son-in-law Edward Lowbury, poet and physician.
Verlag: All three on letterheads of Turville Heath Cottage Henley-on-Thames. Letters dated 11 November and 1 March 1997. Card undated, 1995
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In den WarenkorbAll three items in good condition, with both letters lightly-creased at the foot. ONE: TLS. Signed 'John Mortimer'. 11 November 1995. 1p, 8vo. He was delighted to receive Fry's letter and would 'like to visit a writing group with which you're connected. If I'm free on May 10th I'll come. I'm just waiting to hear about a trip to…Florida so do let the committee write to me. I'll know by then more clearly what I'm doing.' TWO: TLS. Signed 'John', with Mortimer deleting the typed word 'sincerely'. 1 March 1997. 1p, 8vo. He found it 'a delight' to hear Fry's 'lecture at the RSL'. He would 'love to come and see you, but March is very full up. Could we ring one another at the end of the month and talk about April?' He points out that Fry did meet his daughter, 'but she might be working in Bristol'. THREE: ACS. Signed 'John/'. Undated. Card with printed letterhead, otherwise blank, with Mortimer writing on both sides. 'I was afraid my [?] was inadequate and am delighted you thought it OK. Have been travelling around a lot lately, Canada, America twice, Rome and Brussels in the last 2 months but wd love to see you. - Either in Chichester or ? here. Will ring and try and fix something. | Penny [his second wife] sends her love | ever. | John/'.
Verlag: Printers' slug on title-page: 'Courier Co. Ltd. Tun. Wells.' Tunbridge Wells, 1934
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In den WarenkorbPossibly the author's first book (see below), from the Christopher Fry papers (despite the ownership inscription). 54pp, 12mo. Stapled into green printed wraps (title and words '(ALL RIGHTS RESERVED)'). Tiny ownership signature in initials ('R. G.') in top right-hand corner of title-page. No details of publication or date, other… than the printers' slug at bottom left of title-page. At the foot of the title-page, where the name of the publisher usually sits, is: '(ALL RIGHTS RESERVED) | Requests for permission to perform this Pantomime should be made to the publishers.' Aged and worn, in like wraps, with lightly-rusted staples. A humorous piece in prose and verse, with humour and colloquial dialogue pointing to Fry's future achievements. Scarce: the only two copies on OCLC WorldCat at Oxford and the British Library, the latter copy being dated to 1934. Consequently one of Fry's earliest published works (it is stated on the title-page that the work has 'publishers', see above), if not his first, appearing around the same time as the 1934 'She Shall Have Music', written with Monte Crick and F. Eyton. According to Fry's entry in the Oxford DNB: 'After a brief spell as an actor in Bath and a schoolteacher in Surrey, in 1934 he became director of a repertory theatre in Tunbridge Wells, where he staged the first English production of G. B. Shaw's Village Wooing.'.
Verlag: The first two letters on letterhead of Malpas House Oxted; the last on letterhead of The Crofts Nailsworth the third from Shenstone Nailsworth. Between 23 March and 16 May 1935. Book: London: Jonathan Cape 1929, 1928
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In den WarenkorbThe letters are in fair condition, lightly aged and worn, except for the third, which is damp-stained with closed tears at head and foot. The book is in fair condition, without dust wrapper. All four letters are signed 'W. H. Davies.' The first three are addressed to 'Mr Harris', and the last (an ANS rather than an ALS) to 'Mr F…ry'. Each is 1p, 12mo. Letter One: 23 March 1928; Malpas House, Oxted. After reading his poem, Davies states, 'I begin to think you ought to take some step towards publishing, as soon as you have enough material. The interest in this poem is sustained to the end, and the end is good indeed.' He finds the poem 'much too long for a magazine', but thinks that if he can 'write any thing that is shorter and of equal merit, it would be worth trying the papers with it'. He advises him to 'cultivate the lyrical, instead of the reflective spirit', and by doing so he 'will stand a good chance of success'. Letter Two: 17 July 1928; Malpas House, Oxted. He and his wife accept Harris's invitation (to a book launch?). 'These new poems of yours come off very well, especially "The Rabbit" and "Song from a Play["], the one with two verses'. He finds the poems 'so straightforward, simple, and genuine in sentiment that they stand above criticism.' Regarding Harris's plans for a novel, he believes that if he has 'a good and engrossing subject', he is 'certain to go on with it but the first chapter is always the very devil, even to writers of much practise'. Letter Three: 28 September 1929; Shenstone, Nailsworth, Glos. He is pleased to hear from him, and to see that he is 'still doing literary work'. He has 'quite enjoyed' Harris's 'little play', and 'can only find the usual fault, which is a real virtue in all young poets it is just a bit too poetical, and needs pruning. However, you are on the safe road, and restraint will come in due course.' The 'extracts' from Harris's 'Allegory' sound 'very promising', and he hopes he will 'find the subject interesting enough to continue to the end'. The letter ends: 'We both send our kindest regards to you and yours. You must give us a call if you are ever down this way.' On the reverse, in black ink, is a six-line unpublished poem in Fry's autograph: 'This gentle duck, I heard it said, | Wishes to stand beside my bread: | Wishes, I heard a fairy state, | To stand and watch me clean my plate: | And one more thin he wishes yet, - | Wishes to hold your serviette.' Also on the reverse, in pencil in Fry's autograph, is the well-known mnemonic on English monarchs, beginning 'Willy Willy Harry Ste | Harry Dick John Harry III', and ending 'William & Mary Anna Gloria | Four Georges William & Victoria'. Letter Four: 16 May 1935; The Croft, Nailsworth, Glos. Not in fact an ALS but an ANS. Reads: 'Dear Mr Fry, | I am not writing any prose in these days, but here's a little poem, which I hope you will like.' The book 'Ambition and Other Poems' is 32pp, 8vo, in green cloth, with frayed printed label on spine. It carries on the front free endpaper the ownership inscription of 'Christopher Harris. | 1930.' Loosely inserted is a printed advertisement for Davies' 'The Song of Love', 4pp, 32mo bifolium.
Verlag: Copy Letter dated 21 June ; no place. Play: Friends of Canterbury Cathedral. Canterbury: H. J. Goulden Ltd. 1948, 1948
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In den WarenkorbFrom the Christopher Fry papers. PLAY: [1] + 47pp, 12mo. Stapled into buff wraps printed in red, including the statement that it is the 'Friends of Canterbury Cathedral Edition'. In fair condition, lightly aged, in worn wraps, with a trace of rust to staples. This edition of the play (the first?) is uncommon: the only copies on…OCLC WorldCat at the British Library and University of British Columbia. COPY LETTER: 4pp, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. Written out in two hands, Recipient not named. With salutation 'Dear Sir,' and valediction 'I am | Yrs truly,'. Begins: 'The Canterbury Festival has this year been ennobled by a poetic drama which states in stark sincerity and with unflinching courage the message of Christ. Would that in every cathedral and place of worship in our land there could be set up those lines from the closing passage of' at this point the text continues in another hand. A reference is made to 'The forces with which this urgent message must contend are well illustrated in the notices of the play. | Again, as those of us who saw it know, the play reaches at its climax a passionate force of most moving sincerity.' The writer(s) take exception to the view of the Times reviewer that the language at the play's climax 'reveals a want of emotional force'. The reviewer, 'having clearly shown that he has understood much of the play's purpose, proceeds, to adapt his own phrase, conscientiously and deliberately to decry and question Mr Fry's deep sincerity [] It is plain that to the dramatic critic of the Times the message of Christ is a dangerous idea.' The letter ends: 'May I, in closing, congratulate Mr Michael Golden on his fine interpretation of Cymen's great struggle against evil, and the other members of a memorable cast on their part in the performance of so significant a play'. Also present is a newspaper cutting of a review of the 'Festival Play At Canterbury | From J. C. Trewin'.
Verlag: The five letters between and 1991. Three of the letters on letterhead of The Old Granary Charlton West Sussex. Hostage Action Worldwide material all c/o The Charlton Foundation 28 Nottingham Place London, 1989
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In den WarenkorbNine items, all in good condition. All of the letters are signed 'Anthony', and four of them (two autograph and two typed) are each 1p, 8vo. The other letter, in autograph, is 1p, 16mo. With four items of material relating to Hostage Action Worldwide. The first letter (11 May 1989) accompanies 'our first reply to our first 350 d…onors we're hoping to build rapidly now'. He reports that 'The Archbishop of Canterbury has this week responded positively to us and appointed a man, John Lyttle to our Advisory Council. Two further M.P.'s have also joined.' Other letters relate to requests for signed copies of Fry's books. Fry and he being near-neighbours, Grey writes at one point: 'I will be glad to pop up and collect the signed book sometime if you'll telephone. No need to make a social occasion of it since I know how precious the writer's time is. You could leave it for my collection with Mary & Frank in the village shop if you'd rather'. On 9 April 1991 he asks if Fry 'might like to spare the time for a chat, for half an hour or so, some time. I am just finding my way into an important novel and, although I cannot precisely explain why, I feel I would like to talk to you briefly about some of the themes of your plays, and how you feel about some of them now. I don't want this to sound onerous, and I hope it would merely be an enjoyable and relaxing chat over a drink at your local pub or at "The Fox", or any other place you would prefer.' On 5 June 1991, in acknowledging the gift of two works, he states that he 'enjoyed our lunch together at the Half Moon enormously. Afterwards I drove to the top of the Trundle and there I read your lecture; I read the play later in the day. The lecture in particular I found very moving beautifully poetic despite its prose lecture form.' He is 'glad that we managed to spend an hour or two in one antoher's company at last' and reports that 'work on "TOKYO" is moving along slowly, but it is now beginning to speed up. | There are many things I could say about our conversation and although it was very brief, there was something in the companionship that, I felt, was ultimately inspiring.' On 3 August 1991 he reports that, while spending time at his 'home city' of Norwich he 'discovered' the mystic Julian of Norwich: 'She's wonderful the first woman (1320's) to write and publish a book in English'. He is 'surprised there isn't a Christopher Fry play set around her'. He is enclosing material relating to her, which he found, with 'the two full texts life-changingly illuminating'. He reports that he is 'off to New York [] doing lectures on the QE2 [] A nice free holiday, singing for one's supper! I think often of Caedmon and the splendid experience at Boxgrove.' The four items of HAW material include a circular letter, dated 2 May 1989, acknowledging a donation to HAW, signed by Grey as Chairman, 'Anthony'. At the head he has written: 'Christopher, | This is our formal letter to donors. I thought you might like to have it to see how we are progressing.' There is also a signed autograph postscript to Fry: 'Needless to say, much of the above is for information only. Frederick Forsyth, an old chum of mine, has also asked to become vice-president of the Charlton Foundation. We will check with you before finalising the headed note-paper.' Accompanying the circular are undated photocopied pages on separate leaves explaining HAW's 'Background' and 'Aims'. There is also a 'Draft Brochure' (3pp, 8vo).
[Walter Starkie, Irish author, Hispanic and Romany scholar.] Three Autograph Letters Signed to Christopher Fry regarding Spanish translation, W. B. Yeats and Abbey Theatre; with five letters from Geoffrey Cumberlege of OUP, two from G. W. S. Hopkins.
Walter Starkie (1894-1976), Irish author, Hispanic and Romany scholar; Geoffrey Cumberlege (18911979); Gerard Walter Sturgis Hopkins (1892-1961) [Christopher Fry (1907-2005); Oxford University Press]
Verlag: All items dating from Two of Starkie's three letters from Madrid the other on letterhead of the Athenaeum London. Seven letters on letterheads of the Oxford University Press London, 1955
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In den WarenkorbFourteen items, including three letters from Starkie and seven letters from the Oxford University Press five of them from Geoffrey Cumberlege and two from G. W. S. Hopkins and copies of two letters from Cumberlege to Fry's agent Emanuel Wax, and a copy of a letter from the OUP to Starkie. All dating from 1955. The collection is…in fair condition, lightly aged and worn. The three Starkie letters are all in autograph, and total 7pp. The first two are written from Madrid, and the last from the Athenaeum in Pall Mall. All three are signed 'Walter Starkie' and the first (19 April) also has a long postscript signed 'W. S.' It begins: 'Dear Mr Christopher Fry. | I have been advised to write to you on behalf of the Teatro de Camara in Madrid, a Vanguard Theatrical Group to ask whether you would be willing to allow them to translate and produce your play "The Lady's not for Burning". They particularly wish to produce it next season.' He can 'thoroughly recommend' them: 'they have a good company of professional actors and have I think a subsidy from the government. [] Sean O'Casey gave them leave to produce "Juno and the Paycock".' Starkie is 'so glad they are so keen' on Fry's plays: 'We have in the past years devoted a lot of attention at the British Institute and in lectures to Verse plays, especially yours and those of T. S. Eliot. I was at the first night of "Venus Observed" a few years ago and loved it. I think we met in the [Mercury?] Theatre some years ago with my friend Ashley Dukes.' The letter concludes: 'I was for 17 years a director of the Abbey and a lifelong friend of W. B. Yeats'. In the postscript he states that 'the translation is being made by Nicolas Gonzalez Ruiz, the well-known translator of Shakespeare. The translations done in South America cannot be produced here as the Spanish is so barbarous!' The second letter (21 September) begins: 'For quite a long time some of us who are interested in the theatre have been trying to stimulate interest in Verse plays and I used to lecture on your plays and those of Elliot [sic] and W. B. Yeats, with whom I was so many years associated in the Abbey Theatre.' He gives more information regarding the Teatro Nacional de Camara, including names of authors whose plays have been among its 'very good work'. 'They, however, have had a disappointing response from your agents ACTAC, who do not seem to be aware of the conditions obtaining in the Spanish Theatre today.' He describes three 'conditions they impose [.] which make it impossible for the play to be produced', adding 'They have asked me to write to you to see whether anything can be done to surmount these obstacles. [] I have always tried to help these devotees of the theatre who really wish to put on modern works'. He notes that in many cases the plays have been 'taken up by the commercial touring companies in Spain'. He ends by suggesting a meeting when he comes to London, and in the final letter (21 October), written on an Atheneum letterhead, he again puts the proposal from a company 'who are so anxious to produce your play [] They asked me to write you a personal letter about it, which I did, but I have not received a reply so far. I wrote to you because there was such interest in your plays in Madrid and I thought it a pity if one or two of them could not be produced.' Of the seven Typed Letters Signed from the Oxford University Press: five are from Printer to the University Geoffrey Cumberlege, and two from Charles Williams's friend the novelist and translator G. W. S. Hopkins. The first of the Cumberlege letters (12 August), all of which are signed 'Jock', begins with references to Moelwyn Merchant and a play which Fry has 'on the stocks', before turning to the 'Spanish (Sudamericana) arrangements' (these relating to publication in Buenos Aires of a Spanish translation of three of Fry's plays), on the subject of which he has received a letter from 'EW' i.e. Fry's agent Emanuel Wax of Actac (Theatrical & Cinematic) Ltd which gave him 'a considerable shock. He said that [] the action that you both proposed was virtually to reject everything that has been done in the last three years. I am to a great extent the curator of the Press's "face", and I can't see how I am possibly going to convey Wax's harsh decisions at this point. [] Sudamericana must have spent quite a lot of mondey. They have made their deposit here to cover the first 2000 copies, [] I don't like giving grounds to foreigners for talking about perfidious Albion, and I particularly dislike the perfidious Press! I am sorry to bother you with these matters but I don't feel happy that you really know the story because if you did I am sure you would act more generously.' In his second letter (1 September), Cumberlege continues on the same subject before expressing delight at the news that Fry has 'gone broody'. He adds, 'That is a state that lasts for only two or three weeks and then you ought to begin serious laying. The nice Mr. Merchant, to whom I took very much, says that he thinks this is going to be the best play of all. What good news.' On 2 November Cumberlege is keen to learn 'the subject of your next play', and apologises for 'this stupid business of L'Avant-Scène. I don't quite know what they are up to but the French are not the easiest to deal with over matters of this kind.' On 8 December he writes about one matter he wants 'to put right': 'We had a long discussion about the quality of the translation of the three plays and we were both thinking that Starkie's criticism was aimed at the Sudamericanese, but I am reminded that these books were translated into Castilian Spanish and they have all had your approval. That being so, I cannot make out what it is that Starkie complains of, Can you enlighten me?' Accompanying this letter of 8 December is a carbon copy of a letter of the same date from Cumberlege to Wax, in which he states that he cannot see 'that Spain will produce a better translation that.
