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Mass Market PaperBack. Condizione: Very Good. Reprint. Mass market paperback, reprint with vertical creases running along side spine. Textblock edges tinted raspberry red with some splotches of discoloration left over from years of exposure to our atmospher. Cover painting by James Meese. [146 pages].

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 201 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.46 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 201 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.46 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 201 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.46 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 201 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.46 inches. In Stock.

The three items laid down on an 11 x 17 cm leaf removed from an album, with the signatures of Dowdeswell and Piggott on one side, and that of Thirlwell on the other. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Piggott's signature ('Lester Piggott') is on a 4 x 9 cm piece of pink paper, on the same page as Dowdeswell's ('Best Wishes | Jack Dowdeswell | 1956.'), which is on a 4 x 8 cm piece of paper. Laid down on the reverse page is a printed card signed 'Alan Thirlwell'. The card is addressed from 1 Fernwood Avenue, Gosforth, and reads: 'It is not possible for me to write individually to all the kind people who have sent their good wishes on my success in the English Amateur Golf Championship, but I send this brief acknowledgment to let you know how much I appreciate your kind thoughts.'.

3pp, 4to. In good condition, lightly aged. A long and entertaining letter, beginning: 'Dear Mr. Fry, | Probably late in 1949, in a New York City duplex living room, two married couples lay prone on the floor, fanned out around a single copy of "The Lady's Not for Burning", the better to read aloud all its colorful roles. The couples were Alfred Drake (with whom I had played the previous season in my first Broadway play), his wife, my writer husband [i.e. Robert Presnell Jr] and I. Alfred had just come across "The Lady" and had to share his discovery with us.' The reading gave her 'a lifetime favorite play'. She describes how she had to 'miss playing in "A Phoenix too Frequent," being hard at work then in G. B. Shaw's "The Devil's Disciple" at the Royale Theatre'. The 'floor-reading foursome' attended a performance of 'The Lady' by the British cast at the same theatre, 'and were spellbound. I especially recall the mellow beauty of Pamela Brown's voice, and noting well the actor playing Richard, the copying clerk, also a Richard, last name Burton.' She describes a production she was in with Vincent Price, 'first at Southern California's La Jolla Playhouse, then at San Francisco's Alcazar Theatre': 'Audiences trooped backstage to thank us for the feast of language they had enjoyed a rare attention to text. Loving the play we all longed to take it on tour, but previous commitments forbade, and so the magic spell we'd been under was broken. But Vinnie Price and I did have one more go at it a few years later when his hometown, St. Louis, Missouri showed that middle-America could relish Christopher Fry just as much as did our east and west coasts.' She contrasts how Fry's words 'fly upward like the sparkling drops of an exuberant fountain' with how T. S. Eliot's speeches, 'in the simplest, barest of words, could leave the listener baffled as to what it was he was saying. I even had trouble learning those lines.' She ends by explaining that 'That very nice fellow-actor Ted Donaldson encouraged me to tell you what joy your writing has brought me and so many others, in these distant outposts. Your unique gifts have enriched all who have come across them. Thank you, oh thank you for sharing them with us.'.