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Condizione: Very Good. Original Publisher's Copy 4to. pp 19, typed recto only with many tight red underlinings a couple of corrections in his hand and one passage crossed out in ink. Address on title page handwritten by Cornwallis WestÐ West, 8, Sterling Street, S.W.7. Beneath a crosed out address of the Guards Club in Brook Street W1. Circa 1930; no date given. Brown cord folder with lilac raffia string as hinge and typed blue title stating this is the second carbon. Play with three characters a woman ( Margaret Hewitt) who meets up with her old pre marrage lover and her husband a Scottish tobacconist - it appears the husband is a drunken brute and there is much confrontation between him and the lover and the wife with shouting and raging -- it appears the lover triumphs.Major George Frederick Myddleton Cornwallis-West (1874Ð1951) was a British Army officer, author, and prominent society figure,best remembered for his 1930 memoir Edwardian Hey-Days: Or, A Little About a Lot of Things, and his high-profile marriages to Lady Randolph Churchill and actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell. Life. .Career: Served as a British Army officer. He went on to work as a financial consultant, but suffered severe financial difficulties and was declared bankrupt in 1916 before later repaying his debts.Major Works Edwardian Hey-Days (1930): An entertaining, anecdotal memoir of high-society life, notable figures, and his own experiences in early 20th-century Britain. Very good. Slight edgewear.…

Condizione: Very Good. Original Publisher's Copy Fiction:"This MS is the property of G. Cornwallis Ð West, 8, Sterling Street, Knightsbridge, S.W.7." Circa 1938; no date given. Small slim 4to. pp.17. Brown cord folder with lilac raffia string as hinge and typed title labels. Handwritten publisher's note "Copyrighted in USA all rights reserved,' with a publisher's stamp on the front cover and first page 'Must await American release date.'/Major George Frederick Myddleton Cornwallis-West (1874Ð1951) was a British Army officer, author, and prominent society figure,best remembered for his 1930 memoir Edwardian Hey-Days: Or, A Little About a Lot of Things, and his high-profile marriages to Lady Randolph Churchill and actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell. Life. .Career: Served as a British Army officer. He went on to work as a financial consultant, but suffered severe financial difficulties and was declared bankrupt in 1916 before later repaying his debts.Major Works Edwardian Hey-Days (1930): An entertaining, anecdotal memoir of high-society life, notable figures, and his own experiences in early 20th-century Britain. PLOT - '.a short story about a man living in /ceylon, home in the UK to visit his mother, who as the result of rescuing a child girl from a wave on the sea shore meets a woman he finds attractive, and they become friends. She tells him she is married to a man she despises, a convict who is shortly to be released. She has to make a decision whether to go to Ceylon with the man or stay with her child. There a bit more about a signal from a lamp that will let the man know whether she is going with him, that goes wrong.' Very good. Slight wear.…

Condizione: Very Good. Original Publisher's Copy 4to. pp 41, typed recto only in blue and red type with a few handwritten corrections. Typed address on title page 'G.Cornwallis WestÐ Guards Club Brook Street W1.' Circa 1930; no date given. Blind stamp on cover of the London typing agency Ethel Christian (Southampton Street WC2). Maroon thin card folder with blue and white raffia string as hinge and typed red title label stating this is the 'top copy.'. Play with 9 characters -Thelma Deym 'a great actress' Eloise Marski 'her life-long friend and companion', a confidential French servant and courier, Anna, her old housekeeper and Emile Harden 'an actor and leader of the revolution'. There are also four unnamed revolutionaries and 'as many others as may be possible circumstances permitting.' Set in a 'beautifully furnished' apartment in Budapest during a time of revolution. The leading revolutionary is revealed to be an actor and an old friend of the leading character, the actress Thelma. The theme of the player appears to be a confrontation between the actress and the revolutionaries with much argument and references to the theatre and the sounds of gunfire, the last words of the play are (from Thelma) '.you forget I am an actress.' Major George Frederick Myddleton Cornwallis-West (1874Ð1951) was a British Army officer, author, and prominent society figure,best remembered for his 1930 memoir Edwardian Hey-Days: Or, A Little About a Lot of Things, and his high-profile marriages to Lady Randolph Churchill and actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell. Life. .Career: Served as a British Army officer. He went on to work as a financial consultant, but suffered severe financial difficulties and was declared bankrupt in 1916 before later repaying his debts.Major Works Edwardian Hey-Days (1930): An entertaining, anecdotal memoir of high-society life, notable figures, and his own experiences in early 20th-century Britain. Very good indeed.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Original Publisher's Copy 4to. pp 27, 26 & 19 , typed recto only in blue and red type with a few handwritten corrections, one being to the title itself where the typed word 'horses has been changed in ink to 'men.' Address on label at rear of the London typing agency Ethel Christian (Southampton Street WC2) with a handwritten date, possibly 1925. Loose typed sheets in beige folder with red linen tape spine and small red typed title label and the blind stamp of Ethel Christian. Play set amongst upper-class types at Eyton Manor in a hot summer with a country party , cricket, a butler ,romantic elements some criminal elements mention of a safe and a break -in. Probably never performed. Major George Frederick Myddleton Cornwallis-West (1874Ð1951) was a British Army officer, author, and prominent society figure,best remembered for his 1930 memoir Edwardian Hey-Days: Or, A Little About a Lot of Things, and his high-profile marriages to Lady Randolph Churchill and actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell. Life. .Career: Served as a British Army officer. He went on to work as a financial consultant, but suffered severe financial difficulties and was declared bankrupt in 1916 before later repaying his debts. Major Works Edwardian Hey-Days (1930): An entertaining, anecdotal memoir of high-society life, notable figures, and his own experiences in early 20th-century Britain. Barbara Huxley, his co-writer, is not traceable and not mentioned in Eileen Quelch's biography of Cornwallis-West 'Perfect Darling.' Ethel Christian's tyewriting agency was widely advertised in literary annuals as "The Smartest in London," with high-profile endorsements from prominent contemporary writers. They offered private dictation rooms and on-demand stenographers available by the hour, day, or week. Very good. Slight edgewear.…