Holt marvell eric maschwitz (3 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Some wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, surface of cover speckled / patchy, corners a little bumped and worn, top and bottom of spine a little bumped, spine a little faded, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear, comes with a letter from John Maschwitz stapled to front end paper and half title page, and a note from a previous owner giving a short bio of Eric Maschwitz / Holt Marvell.…

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First. A very good copy in a good jacket. Maschwitz is perhaps best known for his work in entertainment and co-writing the adaptation of Goodbye Mr Chips with R.C. Sherriff and Claudine West. Uncommon, particularly in the jacket. Some tanning to the spine, with a little foxing. Mark to the spine, gift inscription and some offsetting. Top edge dusty. A large area of insect damage to the jacket's rear.…

FIRST EDITION, a few faint spots to page-heads, pp. 192, crown 8vo, original purple cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, patches of discolouration to cloth, edges roughtrimmed, bookplate to corner of front pastedown, dustjacket with an attractive design by Albert Rutherston, browned and lightly spotted, a little chipped including to centre of backstrip panel, good. Inscribed by the author on the title-page: 'For Christopher, from Holt Marvell, Sep 1930'. A 'story of quite exceptional originality and wit and malice' (blurb), in which Lady Hermione Flourish enlists the 'last of the Witches' (p. 9), Emmeline Turner, to assist her in various intrigues and entertainments - played, as the title suggests, for comic effect. In his Foreword, the author bemoans that people nowadays 'have no time to believe in Witches when Movies and Television, Airships and Radio already make so large a demand upon their credulity'. The world of popular entertainment was one with which the author - born in Birmingham and educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge - was familiar: he wrote the screenplay for 'Goodbye, Mr Chips', as well as providing the lyrics for popular songs including 'A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square' and 'These Foolish Things'. This is his second novel, following 'Husks in May' with the same publisher; he later collaborated on detective novels with Val Gielgud.…