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Illustrated paper cover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. G: in Good condition without dust jacket as issued. 220mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). 16pp. Cast, story and stills from the 1939 movie.

Zustand: Very Good. Piano sheet music in white paper covers 14'' x 10'' with monochrome photograph of Will Fyffe to the front cover. 4 printed pages. Without any tears and in Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHEET MUSIC.

From the Macqueen-Pope papers. See the two men's entries in the Oxford DNB. MP is not named as the author, but there is no doubt that he is. Item one has corrections in his hand. Both versions are simply titled 'Will Fyffe'. The two versions exhibit a number of differences from one another. It is not clear where the obituary was published, but it was probably the London magazine 'Everybody's', for which MP contributed a weekly column. ONE: 4pp, 4to, double-spaced, on four leaves. Autograph corrections to first sentence, and an altogether more untidy effect (including an additional passage on the last page which is correctly positioned in the second draft below) suggest that this is an earlier draft. Begins: 'It was a freak [of fortune] that made Will Fyffe [into a] music hall [star] instead of remaining on the legitimate stage, where he had made his beginning as a small boy.' Contains information not present in the second version, including several astute assessments. For example: 'Unlike Sir Harry Lauder, the other great Scot of the Halls, Will Fyffe was a realist. He could create a character and be it. It was not Will Fyffe at whom you gazed, it was a gamekeeper, a centenarian, a Scots engineer on a steamship, a guard on the Highland Railway - finding a report of the Battle of Waterloo in the lining of his ill fitting cap, a country doctor, a real country bumpkin, the blacksmith at Gretna Green or the inebriated gentleman to whom Glasgow belonged on a Saturday night. He studied his types and he reproduced them magnificently. They were real people.' Other topics include his mastery of make-up, international popularity and 'magnificent service' in the First World War. TWO: 3pp, 4to, single-spaced, on three leaves. More polished than One, and with emendations, deletions and recasting. Ends: 'Our stage has lost one of its greatest artists and finest men. How fine an actor he was few knew, although one celebrated critic glimpsed it when he wrote "Mr Fyffe has a sob here of which Garrick had bee proud.'.

Treatment script for the 1939 film, here under the working title "The Investors." With manuscript ink annotations on the title page and throughout, noting substantive and editorial revisions. Based on the 1925 short story "The Investors" by Edgar Wallace. Elderly Mr. Reeder (Will Fyffe) investigates the mysterious disappearances of 27 people involved in shady financial dealings. The second Wallace adaptation directed by Jack Raymond and featuring Will Fyffe and Kay Walsh, preceded by "The Mind of Mr. Reeder" in 1939. Self wrappers. Title page present, undated, with credits for screenwriter Richard Starr and story credits to Edgar Wallace. 126 leaves, with last page of text numbered 124. Typescript, rectos only. Pages Very Good, lightly edgeworn, with soil to the first ten leaves, bound with three gold brads.

Early Draft script for the 1939 film, "The Mysterious Mr. Reeder," here under the working title (and the title Monogram Pictures used for its 1940 re-release), "The Mind of Mr. Reeder." Copy belonging to screenwriter Bryan Edgar Wallace (Edgar Wallace's son), with his name and manuscript annotations in pencil on the front wrapper. Based on the 1925 collection of short stories "The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder" by Edgar Wallace. The second Mr. Reeder film, this time seeing the absentminded detective investigate a gang of counterfeiters. Tan titled wrappers. Title page present, dated October 1, 1935, with credit for writer Wallace. 78 leaves, mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with a teal cord. Okuda 71.