walter james mackenzie (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Illustrated with sketches (illustrator). Text is tight and clean; Owner's name; front board has quite a bit of damage, not sure from what, it appears to have been caught in something which caused tears in the cloth; also has edge wear.

Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown blind-embossed cloth with gilt spine lettering. v, 147pp. Extensive figures and line drawings. Near fine. Faintest of binding edgewear; blind-embossed ownership name on front flyleaf and title page. A superb and tight second, revised edition of this 1913 text, with spine gilt a-gleaming.

Mackenzie's letter is 1p., landscape 12mo. 16 lines. Good, on lightly-aged paper, with a crease to one corner. He thanks MP for his 'encouraging letter' and discusses his own 'silly slip about the Faery Queen's entrance' in a radio broadcast: 'I was so much concerned with giving listeners the difference between the O.P. and the Prompt side that it became a question of physician heal thyself.' He continues: 'I wasn't sure of the year Mille Le Garde [sic] sang that song. Probably '97. Rose Dering was the Aladdin. She was second boy. Ted Young was the Widow Twankey. By the way in the pantomime in which Marie Lloyd was principal girl and sang Ta Ra Ra Boom de Ay, Vesta Tilley was the principal Boy, but I cannot remember the name of the pantomime.' He would like to get hold of copies of 'The Stage' for the 1880s and 1890s, and hopes that they 'may meet sometime. it would give me great pleasure.' An autograph postscript reads: 'I always enjoy your books very much'. Carbon copy of MP's reply: 1p., 8vo. Creased and aged. 18 lines. He gives chapter and verse (names, dates, venues) concerning the points raised by CM, concluding 'I hope we meet before long'.