Compton Mackenzie, Signed (17 results)

First and limited edition of 500 copies. 22 x 15 cm. 28 pages. Original stiff paper wrappers. Very good condition. Wrappers dust dulled. Gift inscription, signed by Ulick O'Connor on half title page. Internally bright and clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Leonard Penrice (illustrator). 67 pages, illustrated with drawings by Leonard Penrice, very good condition in paper covered boards and leather spine, some stains on both boards, spine slightly rubbed, a few pages with small stains in the margins. Number 213 of an edition of 350 copies signed by Duncan Glen and Leonard Penrice. Arthur Thompson's copy with Duncan Glen's receipted invoice loosely enclosed. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Very Good. * SIGNED COPY *The Savoy of London by Compton Mackenzie 1955 Hardback SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Original Glassine Cover. Small hole in front board caused by bookworms ( now long departed). Full comprehensive history with images of this world famous hotel.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Nicolas Bentley (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1955 first edition, third impression. Inscribed by Author. Size 12mo, 7.25" tall, 311 pages. Red hard cover with red title and publisher's name on white panels on the spine, with the dust jacket. Book condition very good, corners and spine ends a little rubbed, end-papers with offsetting, pages are a bit toned otherwise clean throughout. Dust jacket condition good plus, 1.5x1.5 cm triangular tear to top edge of front panel, with loss of half the A and all of the P, E, and W in tapeworm of the title and the ac in Mackenzie. 0.5cm chip with loss at lower spine end, spine a little sunned, nicks and tears to edges, tiny part of the face of the illustration on the front panel is rubbed away, not price clipped, price 10s. 6d. net. Inscribed by Compton Mackenzie on the front end-paper "For Brenda with Best Wishes from Compton Mackenzie" A humorous novel on the economic measures imposed by the government during World War 2. Dust jacket illustration by Nicolas Bentley. Inscribed by Author(s).

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Some light foxing to prelims. Not price-clipped. Signed by the author. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description: 255 pages 20 cm. Subjects; Comedy. Farce. Regional fiction. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Some light foxing to prelims. Not price-clipped. Signed by the author. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description: 255 pages 20 cm. Subjects; Comedy. Farce. Regional fiction. 1 Kg.

Hardback. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 1st Edition. Grye-green boards with five brown circles at top. Brown elather spine lettered in gold. 256 of 350 copies. Signed at limitation by Glen and Penrice. AN EX LIBRARY BOOK with library marks only on spine, title page and limitation page. Else Book is in very good condition with minor signs of wear and/or age.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp. 255. Frontispiece. 14pp. plates. Original publisher's blue cloth lettered gilt on spine. Green illustrated dust jacket lettered black on spine and upper cover. Printed invitation to Mr and Mrs Nicolas Mavrogordato (handwritten) from the Chairman and Directors of Chatto & Windus to celebrate Compton Mackenzie's eightieth birthday at Carpenter's Hall on January 16th 1963, contained in an envelope pastedown at rear. Handwritten message sent (probably by telegram) from Nicolas & Nol [Mavrogordato] to Compton Mackenzie saying, 'Many happy returns 80 miles away we ponder your 80 years but 80 yards of snow on drive captivate us in Cotswolds. EES [sic] ETI POLLA [for many years]. Nicolas & Nol.' Typed signed letter loosely inserted from Compton Mackenzie to Nicolas and Nol written on headed notepaper from 31 Drummond Place, Edinburgh 3, dated January 28 1963 and consisting of about 27 words in which he thanks them for their telegram and for 'the kind thought that dictated it.' Review of the book and a photograph of the author taken from The Times dated January 17 1963 loosely inserted. Compton Mackenzie (1883-1972) was a prolific Scottish writer best known for 'The Monarch of the Glen' and 'Whisky Galore', cultural commentator and raconteur who was Director of the Aegean Intelligence Service during the First World War. The book covers the first eight years of his life and was followed by nine further autobiographical volumes published between 1963 and 1971. John Nicolas Mavrogordato (1882-1970) was a Greek scholar, translator and poet. Dust jacket torn with slight loss at head of spine and nicked at foot of spine. Very good. Some minor wear to dust jacket, otherwise very good. Signedes.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Edges and prelims lightly foxed. Remains well-preserved overall. SIGNED and dated by the author. Physical description; 318 pages ; 20 cm. Subjects; World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction. Scotland -- Fiction. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Edges and prelims lightly foxed. Remains well-preserved overall. SIGNED and dated by the author. Physical description; 318 pages ; 20 cm. Subjects; World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction. Scotland -- Fiction. 1 Kg.

8vo. First Edition; original wrappers printed label on upper wrapper a near fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON HALF-TITLE. With a copy of the publisher's order card loosely inserted. SIGNED COPIES ARE SCARCE.

According to Barry Took's entry on Constanduros in the Oxford DNB, 'The Buggins Family' was 'the first radio family', and she played all six parts, writing and performing in more than 250 episodes between and 1928 and 1948: 'The popularity of the family was such that the Ministry of Food used Mrs Buggins to broadcast recipes during the Second World War.'Constanduros is also credited with having written more than one hundred plays. The recipient of these two letters, 'Miss Booth', is clearly her agent. Two items, the first in good condition and the second fair, on lightly discoloured paper. Both signed 'Mabel Constanduros'. ONE: Undated ALS to 'Miss Booth', signed 'Mabel Constanduros'. 1p, 12mo. Folded twice. She is sending the stamps she had forgotten to send previously, 'Also these two articles, and a Cockney story which I had forgotten. I can do a series of the articles if wanted. Don't worry about these things if they aren't any good.' She ends with an enquiry after the recipient's health. TWO: Undated ALS [to 'Miss Booth'], signed 'Mabel Constanduros'. On Sutton letterhead. 2pp, 4to. 48 lines of closely-written text. Recipient not named, and no salutation. Begins: 'I felt sure you were ill again and have been cursing myself for increasing your burdens in any way. Don't worry at all about my business - those compositions of mine will do any time. I looked upon them as dead so if they do sell I shall be delighted but if they don't I shan't be at all disappointed. I should make capital out of my broadcasting name, though when offering them'. She lists thirteen 'Future engagements' from 'Dec. 1 & 2 Nottingham (Bazaar)' to 'Jan 7 Aylesbury.' At end: 'My future after that is uncertain.' She has been 'asked by Messry Wylie & Tate to go out in their Wireless Revue - the prospect of many months away from home fills me with dread'. She describes an alternative to this before remarking about the recipient: 'It must be maddening for you not to be allowed to work - poor dear'. Switching to another topic she states that she is 'so pleased because I've just had the most wonderful letter from Compton Mackenzie about my wireless work. He even asks me to stay with him in his Channel Island home. I am so pleased.' She will ring to know how she is. 'You're not to fag yourself in the least about my things.' She ends by stating that she is sending 'one more story': 'the Royal wont have it, but as I say I look upon them as dead heads & shan't worry about them but I shall worry about you if you don't get better.'.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Folded for mailing. There is a tiny amount of wear to the left edge. ; Typed note signed Compton Mackenzie. One page, approx. 4 1/2" wide by 7". On blind stamped letterhead Eilean Aigas, Beauly, Inverness-Shire. Dated 22nd March 1932. To Mr. [Hugh] Chesterman: "I doubt if I shall be able to say anything about 'The Merry-Go-Round' in the Daily Mail, because the Editor might think that in mentioning a magazine I was setting a precedent. .".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Folds (one letter with folds weakening and thin in spots) ; some soiling and wear, and with shorter note mounted to another sheet; else in good condition overall. ; Compton Mackenzie typed note signed and a typed letter signed (with a 4-line holograph postscript) 3 pages on a blindstamped letterhead of Eilean Aigas, Beauly, Inverness-Shire, on a printed letterhead of Sudbrook Lodge, Ham Common, Surrey, 21 Februrary 1933 through June 1945 with one original holograph mailing envelope.

From the Macqueen-Pope papers. (See his entry, and those of Foyle and Mackenzie, in the Oxford DNB.) Apart from damage and rust staining from paperclips, the seven items are in good condition. The correspondence mainly concerns a Foyles Literary Lunch for Macqueen-Pope, which Mackenzie was unable to chair because of an attack of bronchitis. All items 1p, 8vo. Mackenzie's two letters signed 'Compton Mackenzie' and Foyle's signed 'Christina Foyle'. ONE: Foyle to MP, 26 February 1951. She is forwarding a letter from Mackenzie. 'I am still receiving letters from people who were at the luncheon, saying how tremendously they enjoyed it.' TWO: Carbon of typed letter from Mackenzie to Foyle, 25 February 1951. Copy made by MP of the letter referred to in Item One. He thanks her for 'the lovely flowers and for being so understanding about my having to let you down. Not appearing when I am billed to appear is for me the most unpleasant experience I can suffer [.] I hated having to surrender. But I couldn't have stood up and my voice had gone [.] Would you be very kind and let MacQueen-Pope now how distressed I was not being able to take the Chair for him. He is a particularly nice fellow and has done such a lot of good work.' THREE and FOUR: Carbons of typed letters from MP to Foyle and Mackenzie, both dated 28 February 1951. To Mackenzie he writes: 'We missed you. The gentleman wh deputized was anything but the ideal Chairman, which you most certainly would have been. In your absence it devolved on me to receive the guests and one lady informed me - addressing me as Mr. Mackenzie - that she had now achieved the ambition of her life.' FIVE: CM to MP, 1 March 1951. 'I am still pretty bad - bronchitis having succeeded the 'flu'. I am hoping to be able to read A Book at Bedtime in a fortnight's time.' SIX: Carbon of typed letter from MP to CM. He sympathizes with the bronchitis: 'my wife has been a martyr to it'. He is enclosing a copy of the programme: 'It makes nostalgic reading - especially as regards the prices and the reference to chops and steaks always ready. Keep it if it is any use to you - or throw it aways after a smile. I have another.' SEVEN: CM to MP. 'Your note has just been forwarded to me. Many thanks for your generous contribution. We have just passed £3700 which is not bad in these hard times.'.

One sheet, printed on both sides, 17 x 9", folds, wear, toning, with red pencil check mark on recto, with typewritten answers but BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED AT BOTTOM OF VERSO BY COMPTON MACKENZIE. Questionnaire for an American reference book on current authors; Mackenzie also alters the address portion of the sheet, effacing "Mr." and writing in "SIR". Also included is a large packet of biographical material used in preparing Mackenzie's bio, with a TYPED LETTER SIGNED BY MACKENZIE (Edinburgh, Sept. 18, 1963), relating that he can provide ".next November a more complete list of my publications." Also, an eight page photocopied biography and bibliography with blue ink annotations to biography section most likely by Mackenzie himself, as is a short annotation to the last page giving the title ("Compton Mackenzie"), author and publisher of a biography, again, most likely written in black ink by Mackenzie himself. Unique.

All texts clear and complete. Autograph item with some creasing, otherwise in good condition on lightly-aged paper. Ten items signed 'Compton Mackenzie', and two ''. Eight of the items each one page of landscape 8vo; one 8vo, 1 p; another 12mo, 1 p; the autograph note 4to, 1 p; and the card 16mo, 1 p. The first item (4to, 1 p, in autograph) is dated 22 September 1948. Having met Brett-James he thanks him for sending the proofs of his war memoir 'Report My Signals' (London: Hennel Locke Ltd, 1948): 'I was much impressed by it, and supported it strongly for a Book Society Recommendation. But please keep this to yourself, because other members of the committee still have to give their opinion.' Other topics include Mackenzie's military history 'Eastern Epic' (1951), which he admits is 'going to be rather choppy', Brett-James's '5 Div. History', 'Piggy Heath' and Brett-James looking through (in 1955) 'the first seven chapters' of one of Mackenzie's books. Three letters from 1952 concern Brett-James's attempt to join the publishers Chatto & Windus. In the first (27 March) Mackenzie writes: 'I have written to Chattos about you, but I don't expect there'll be any chance of a vacancy there because Piers Raymond and Peter Cochrane are now Directors and both young men. Their reader is Cecil Day Lewis. I sympathise with your wish to be with them because they are really delightful people to be with, but I don't think you must have much hope.' In the same letter he refers to the loss of 'reading sight of my left eye'. The letter from Mackenzie's second wife (landscape 12mo, 1 p), signed 'Chrissie MacSween', has a square of paper torn from the bottom right-hand corner. Despite this, the text is legible. Apologising for 'this seeming familiarity' she is returning Brett-James's railway ticket, 'which Kenny [i.e. Mackenzie] found on the floor after you'd gone'. She speculates that he may be receive 'the full refund on it'. Also fourteen newspaper cuttings by and about Mackenzie, from between 1938 and 1962, all in good condition on lightly-aged paper. Including two of Mackenzie's 'Sidelight' columns from the Spectator, both 1953, and a 1938 article by him from the Listener entitled 'I Became an Author'. Also an appreciation by Joyce Weiner in John o'London's Weekly, 1953, 'Seventy Happy Years', and 'An Appreciation [of Mackenzie's 'On Moral Courage'] by Sir Charles Petrie', Illustrated London News, 1962. From the papers of Anthony Brett-James.