Product Description
First Edition (first printing).
8vo.
253pp.
Red cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine.
With a photographic portrait frontispiece, six photographic plates, and a colour title page decoration "arranged by Lawrence Whistler from drawings by Rex Whistler".
Free endpapers fractionally toned and spotted, and with a minute nick to the cloth at the head of the backstrip.
A very good copy in lightly marked and soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper, repeating the title page decoration on the front panel and with a further Whistler design to the spine panel.
A portrait of the celebrated English actor and poet, penned by his friend and contemporary, and including original memoirs contributed by Charles Morgan, John van Druten, Ivor Brown, Michael Redgrave, Peggy Ashcroft, Wilfrid Blunt and others.
During WWII Haggard was posted to the Middle East, working for the Department of Political Warfare, and there he met author Olivia Manning, becoming the basis for the character 'Aidan Sheridan' in her 'Fortunes of War' sequence.
This biography evades the fact of the subject's suicide (Haggard shot himself on a train between Cairo and Palestine in February 1943, when he was just thirty-one years old).
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