Services Rendered, Signed (4 results)

Hardback. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: nrVG DW. 1st Thus. Green cloth lettered in gold on spine (no decoration). Classified List of 939 volumes. Green "Poetry and Drama" DW has black and white "rosette" signed ER on front cover. Rear cover states "OVER NINE HUNDRED VOLUMES". Code Lj1403. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in very good condition with minor signs of wear and/or age. Size: Sm8vo.

Dated Ocober 10, [19]63. Ca. 92 x 186 mm. Slightly worn; several small stains; various handstamps to recto and verso; minor pencil annotation to recto. Alessio De Paolis "studied in Rome, making his début in 1919 at Bologna as the Duke (Rigoletto). In 1921 he sang Fenton (Falstaff) at La Scala, and for a decade continued to appear as a lyric tenor throughout Italy. In 1933 he turned to character roles. He made his New York début in 1938 as Cassio (Otello) at the Metropolitan, where he gave well over a thousand performances of 50 roles in the next 26 seasons. His repertory included Shuysky, Goro (Madama Butterfly), Spoletta, Don Basilio, the Astrologer (The Golden Cockerel), Gherardo (Gianni Schicchi) and Monsieur Triquet (Yevgeny Onegin), which he sang shortly before his death." Elizabeth Forbes in Grove Music Online. Signed.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. Signed by Author. Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket. The first Wildfire HC edition a very fine book in a like DJ signed by Anderson on a special tipped in page. Signed.

First edition of Maugham's popular play. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "by W. Somerset Maugham for Elsie Tritton." The recipient, Elsie Tritton, was a noted collector and friend ofÂMaugham's who introduced him to Alan Searle. A younger man from the London slum area of Bermondsey, Searle had previously embarked upon an affair with the writer Lytton Strachey. Maugham began a relationship with him after his companion Gerald Haxton died in 1944. In 1962, Maugham attempted to adopt Searle as his son and heir when he disowned his daughter after a financial dispute, but the adoption was annulled. Following Maugham's death in 1962, Searle inherited £50,000, the contents of his Villa La Mauresque, Maugham's manuscripts, and his revenue from copyrights for 30 years. Very good in a very good dust jacket. For Services Rendered examines the effects of World War I on an English family residing in the small country town of Kent, near the cathedral city of Stanbury. The play which first premiered at the Globe Theatre on November 1, 1932 to favorable reviews. "An exceedingly powerful domestic drama, brilliantly acted and produced" (Daily Herald).