Worsley Thomas Cuthbert (5 results)

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Gilt lettering to spine. Wear and numerous small tears to edges of dust jacket, top edge of dust jacket torn and has been repaired with tape, minor softening to tail of spine, minor dust spotting to top of page block, previous owner's name on FEP. Text and illustrations are clean, bright and tight throughout. Clean Copy. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardback in jacket 1969. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Jacket has a 2.5cm closed tear. Front flap is not price-clipped: 30s. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref b2. Five Minutes, Sir Matthew by T. C. Worsley (Thomas Cuthbert Worsley).…

Condition: Fine. Bridge House, Holt, N Bath, August, 1961., 1961. Fine. - Over 65 words penned on both sides of his 8 inch high by 5 inch wide stationery. Writing to "Dear Mr. Saltford", the writer and critic Thomas Cuthbert Worsley apologizes for the confusion due to a misspelling "Oh dear! That intrusive 't'! It slipped in, I guess, because I often pass through the Saltford just between Bath & Bristol, on the Avon, I think it is. "Miss Delaney's play is of course about Salford an industrial town - Lancashire. Sorry to have misled you." Signed "Thomas". Folded for mailing with a date stamped at the top, else fine. The English schoolmaster, writer and theater & television critic Thomas Cuthbert Worsley (1907-1977) was often a companion of Terrence Rattigan. He is best known for his autobiographical novel "Flannelled Fool: A Slice of Life in the Thirties". He went to Spain with Stephen Spender during the Spanish Civil War which inspired his novel "Fellow Travellers" about a the lives and relationships of a group of individuals during the Civil War. The novel explored gay relationships and the role of homosexuals in fighting the fascists without the need for justification. Worsley later worked for the left-wing periodical the New Statesman as an assistant to the literary editor and drama critic Raymond Mortimer and subsequently worked as the theatre and television critic for the Financial Times.…

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Hardback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.