Author: MARSHALL, ROBERT
Title: The Haunted Major
Description: New York, NY: Ives Washburn, Inc, 1960. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by John Mackay. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several small edge nicks and tears along with light rubbing and some associated creases. " The regiment then moved to Barbados where he again had great success with Guy Fawkes. While in Barbados, he wrote a play about the Jacobite rising of 1745–1746 entitled 1746 but although it was bought by an agent, it was never produced. In 1893, he was posted to the Cape Colony as adjutant to Sir William Gordon Cameron, a post which he held for over a year. While stationed at the Cape Town Castle, he wrote a play entitled The Great Day which was to have been produced by George Alexander but F. Pigott, the Examiner of Plays (censor) , objected to it and so this never occurred. A few months later his one-act play The Shades of Night was produced at the Lyceum Theatre. He was then posted to the Colony of Natal where he became aide-de-camp to Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson, Governor of Natal. When his first important play His Excellency the Governor succeeded, he resigned and took playwriting as his profession. He had two other big successes, The Second in Command and The Duke of Killiecrankie. With the latter, he rescued from imminent financial disaster one of the best known managers in London. He died at the age of forty-seven." (from the Madras College Archives). Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .
Keywords: Modern Fiction First Edition Robert Marshall Golf John Mackay Humor Satire Sports Ghosts
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Title: The Haunted Major
Description: New York, NY: Ives Washburn, Inc, 1960. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by John Mackay. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several small edge nicks and tears along with light rubbing and some associated creases. " The regiment then moved to Barbados where he again had great success with Guy Fawkes. While in Barbados, he wrote a play about the Jacobite rising of 1745–1746 entitled 1746 but although it was bought by an agent, it was never produced. In 1893, he was posted to the Cape Colony as adjutant to Sir William Gordon Cameron, a post which he held for over a year. While stationed at the Cape Town Castle, he wrote a play entitled The Great Day which was to have been produced by George Alexander but F. Pigott, the Examiner of Plays (censor) , objected to it and so this never occurred. A few months later his one-act play The Shades of Night was produced at the Lyceum Theatre. He was then posted to the Colony of Natal where he became aide-de-camp to Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson, Governor of Natal. When his first important play His Excellency the Governor succeeded, he resigned and took playwriting as his profession. He had two other big successes, The Second in Command and The Duke of Killiecrankie. With the latter, he rescued from imminent financial disaster one of the best known managers in London. He died at the age of forty-seven." (from the Madras College Archives). Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .
Keywords: Modern Fiction First Edition Robert Marshall Golf John Mackay Humor Satire Sports Ghosts
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- Book number: 46284
- Book number: 46284
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