Robert Loraine, Signed (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. BROOKE-POPHAM, Sir Robert (RFC Wing Commander and later Air Marshal, 1878-1953). Autograph Letter Signed to actor and RFC Captain, Robert Loraine (1876-1935).  Royal Flying Corps, Larkhill, Salisbury Plain, 9 August [1914]. Two leaves (four sides), each on Royal Flying Corps headed paper, 170 × 230 mm, written in ink, dated 'Aug 9th'. Original folds, light toning, but clean and legible throughout; paper sound. Overall, very good. The letter is addressed to Robert Loraine and concerns practical arrangements during the opening days of the war: the despatch of a motor car to London, payment of repair and mess bills, a broken clutch, laundry and luggage, and cab fares between Waterloo and Montague Square. Though domestic in subject, the context is early RFC service life, written from Larkhill, one of the principal training and mobilisation centres of British military aviation in August 1914. The correspondent, Wing Commander Robert Brooke-Popham, would become one of the senior air officers, rising to Air Chief Marshal and serving as Commander-in-Chief Far East at the outbreak of the Pacific War. The recipient, Captain Robert Loraine (1876-1935), was a well-known actor who was also one of the earliest Royal Flying Corps pilots, joining in 1913 and serving from the beginning of the First World War. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Shaw. Shaw, George Bernard. THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA. Getting Married, & The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet. Inscribed. London: Constable & Co., 1911. Sm. 8vo., 407pp., pale green cloth, gilt, t.e.g. A very good or better example of the first edition, first printing. Three plays in one volume, including a list of other works by Shaw at the end of the book. This copy inscribed on the half-title in black fountain pen: "To Robert Loraine / from Bernard Shaw. / 23rd Feb. 1911". Laurence Loraine [1876-1935] was a man of action: actor-manager, soldier, aviator, Fabian and of course, a close friend to Shaw - perhaps best known as an actor he's seen most commonly on holiday with the Shaws and Harley Granville-Barker or at Fabian events. Loraine and Shaw shared political affiliations and a passion for theatre: it was Loraine who premiered as the lead in Man and Superman on Broadway, the production was massively successful and launched Shaw as a force to be reckoned with in the United States. A significant association copy. Signed by Shaw.