MACLAREN-ROSS, Julian (1912-1964). Autograph manuscript signed ('J. Maclaren-Ross') of 'The Salesman Only Rings Once' [an early version of Of Love and Hunger ], part one only, a neat copy in Maclaren-Ross's immaculate small hand, 125 pages, 8vo , green roan; with an autograph letter signed to Bill Makins, Bognor Regis, n.d. [c.1942], referring to 'The Simple Life' [an early version of Bitten by the Tarantula ], 'I don't think I am likely to do better work while I am in the army', and to his rewriting of A House of Cards ('It is farce with a very grim ending ... Central character is Gerard St John, scrounger and film-star'), and asking him to forward a letter and some manuscripts to John Lehmann, 2 pages, 8vo (creased).
MACLAREN-ROSS, Julian (1912-1964). Autograph manuscript signed ('J. Maclaren-Ross') of 'The Salesman Only Rings Once' [an early version of Of Love and Hunger ], part one only, a neat copy in Maclaren-Ross's immaculate small hand, 125 pages, 8vo , green roan; with an autograph letter signed to Bill Makins, Bognor Regis, n.d. [c.1942], referring to 'The Simple Life' [an early version of Bitten by the Tarantula ], 'I don't think I am likely to do better work while I am in the army', and to his rewriting of A House of Cards ('It is farce with a very grim ending ... Central character is Gerard St John, scrounger and film-star'), and asking him to forward a letter and some manuscripts to John Lehmann, 2 pages, 8vo (creased). One of his finest works, Of Love and Hunger draws on Maclaren-Ross's brief experience of working as a door-to-door vacuum-cleaner salesman in 1938: it was published as his first full-length novel in October 1947 -- the final text showing significant revisions from this early draft. Bill Makins, whom Maclaren-Ross initially encountered as the business manager at Cyril Connolly's Horizon and who later became his 'self-appointed agent', features largely in the author's Memoirs of the Forties , notably in the chapter 'The Double Death of William Cooper Makins', when the writer refers to having left Part One of his 'vacuum cleaner novel' 'in the hands of Makins' (though curiously he also explicitly recalls Makins's wife returning the manuscript to him after a false report of her husband's death in the Western Desert). (2)
MACLAREN-ROSS, Julian (1912-1964). Autograph manuscript signed ('J. Maclaren-Ross') of 'The Salesman Only Rings Once' [an early version of Of Love and Hunger ], part one only, a neat copy in Maclaren-Ross's immaculate small hand, 125 pages, 8vo , green roan; with an autograph letter signed to Bill Makins, Bognor Regis, n.d. [c.1942], referring to 'The Simple Life' [an early version of Bitten by the Tarantula ], 'I don't think I am likely to do better work while I am in the army', and to his rewriting of A House of Cards ('It is farce with a very grim ending ... Central character is Gerard St John, scrounger and film-star'), and asking him to forward a letter and some manuscripts to John Lehmann, 2 pages, 8vo (creased).
MACLAREN-ROSS, Julian (1912-1964). Autograph manuscript signed ('J. Maclaren-Ross') of 'The Salesman Only Rings Once' [an early version of Of Love and Hunger ], part one only, a neat copy in Maclaren-Ross's immaculate small hand, 125 pages, 8vo , green roan; with an autograph letter signed to Bill Makins, Bognor Regis, n.d. [c.1942], referring to 'The Simple Life' [an early version of Bitten by the Tarantula ], 'I don't think I am likely to do better work while I am in the army', and to his rewriting of A House of Cards ('It is farce with a very grim ending ... Central character is Gerard St John, scrounger and film-star'), and asking him to forward a letter and some manuscripts to John Lehmann, 2 pages, 8vo (creased). One of his finest works, Of Love and Hunger draws on Maclaren-Ross's brief experience of working as a door-to-door vacuum-cleaner salesman in 1938: it was published as his first full-length novel in October 1947 -- the final text showing significant revisions from this early draft. Bill Makins, whom Maclaren-Ross initially encountered as the business manager at Cyril Connolly's Horizon and who later became his 'self-appointed agent', features largely in the author's Memoirs of the Forties , notably in the chapter 'The Double Death of William Cooper Makins', when the writer refers to having left Part One of his 'vacuum cleaner novel' 'in the hands of Makins' (though curiously he also explicitly recalls Makins's wife returning the manuscript to him after a false report of her husband's death in the Western Desert). (2)
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