HERE'S A HOW-DE-DO - MY LIFE IN GILBERT & SULLIVAN [SIGNED BY MARTYN GREEN AND ELLA HALMAN]
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1952. First Edtion. 8vo., 283pp.; VG/G+; spine red with white lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price cut; spine has some sun-fading; jacket has small amounts of chipping and tears, primarily to the upper and lower edge of the front cover, head and tail of spine, corners; two chips 1/4 of an inch deep and an inch wide on top of front cover; SIGNED on ffep by Martyn Green and Ella Halman, reading 'Best Wishes' followed by their signatures; shelved case 12.
1278260
Shelved Dupont Bookstore
Price: $280
NOTES
Martyn Green was an English actor and singer. He is best known for his work as principal comedian in the Gilbert & Sullivan comic operas, which he performed and recorded with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and other troupes. Ella Louise Halman was an English opera singer and actress, best known for her performances in the contralto roles of the Savoy Operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. Halman left the D'Oyly Carte organisation in 1951 and moved to America, where she toured, along with Martyn Green, in a series of Gilbert and Sullivan productions presented by S. M. Chartock. That tour is presumably when this book was signed.;