the radio adapter’s copy
LEWIS, Wyndham.
Tarr.
London, Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1951.
8vo, pp. vii, [1], 352; publisher’s grey cloth, pale blue dust-jacket printed in blue, red and yellow to a design by Lewis and his wife; a very good copy in a very good jacket; laid in loose is a cutting of a review of the first paperback edition of Tarr (1968); the from the library of Lewis’s friend (and collaborator on several radio productions) D. G. Bridson.
£100
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Third (second revised) edition, set up from a corrected version of the re-written text of 1928 – the details of the textual differences are outlined in ‘Tarr V’ by Bernard Lafourcade (Enemy News 15, Winter 1982). The dust-jacket features Lewis’s last drawing before his blindness (see Meyers).
Bridson’s adaptation of Tarr, produced with Lewis’s assistance, aired on 18 and 20 July 1956 and included a new scene written especially for the occasion.
Pound & Grover A2g; Morrow & Lafourcade A3f.
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First edition, signed, of Ayrton’s first literary work, a ‘charming, satirically irreverent and amusing’ book about a minor demon charged with the collecting of idle and pompous words. It was first conceived for the radio and broadcast on 22 December 1952 – the producer was Francis ‘Jack’ Dillon, one of Bridson’s earliest and closest friends at the BBC.
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The Dog beneath the Skin or where is Francis? A Play in three Acts.
Sixth impression. When Bridson had reviewed the play on its first publication in 1935 (along with two other works), he thought it ‘very good fun … as slick, symbolical and smart-Alecky as The Orators’, though the versification of the choruses was ‘on the slack side’. In 1965 Bridson included a radio production of the play the in-depth examination of ‘Britain in the Thirties’ of which he was the general editor.