Majorie Lawrence (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. *HARDBACK, no edition stated in good to vg condition. Rebound Ex.library with all marks, stamps, pocket, etc. Burgundy boards with gilt lettering on spine. Nicely rebound. Clean and tight. Contains some photographs of author. Lawrence was an Austrialian Soprano who developed polio in 1941. This is her autobiography. In 1955, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced a film based on this book, Interrupted Melody, starring Eleanor Parker as Lawrence miming the voice of Eileen Farrell.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. First Edition. 64pp.; HB dk.blue w/gilt; rubbed w/some wear on edges&bleed-thru on pastedwns.; PONemboss ft.endpaper; clean,tight pgs. Poetry.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Large format story book of 20 stories and poems by various authors. Eight colour plates plus line drawings by Margaret Tarrant. Some of the drawings have been neatly coloured in otherwise in lovely bright condition with no inscriptions. Margaret Tarrant (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued. First Edition, First Thus. Text/New & bright, First Edition, First Thus. Illustrated softcover/ strong & sound w/light wear. Eloquent autobiography from a superlative being. Marjorie Florence Lawrence CBE (1907 - 1979), Australian-born soprano & noted interpreter of Wagner's operas. First, for the Metropolitan, to perform the immolation scene in Götterdämmerung by riding her horse into the flames --- the opening chapter to this book is rightfully entitled :"Tale of a Horse!". 5th of 6 children, afflicted by polio in 1941,and ultimated serves on the faculty of the School of Music at Southern Illinois, in Carbondale. Her life was adapted to film filim (1955) staring by Eleanor Parker, whose performance was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. …