tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045845679444796608.post1185580138411929341..comments2024-03-19T10:12:43.882+00:00Comments on Bookride: Alastair (Count Hans-Henning von Voigt 1887-1969)Bookridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05881971821359627382noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045845679444796608.post-82667077348694506082012-01-27T21:25:07.788+00:002012-01-27T21:25:07.788+00:00Incredible !! .... I have just been posting a coup...Incredible !! .... I have just been posting a couple of decent posts re Louise Brooks and here she pops up on yr blog too!!<br /><br />Blimey. <br /><br />I am sitting here next to this evenings lending library bio on the very woman too. <br /><br />Yr blog is excellent, many thanks. <br /><br />kllrchrd3Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045845679444796608.post-63155133636600024972012-01-04T13:54:29.046+00:002012-01-04T13:54:29.046+00:00Count Fanny is certainly a curiosity as it would p...Count Fanny is certainly a curiosity as it would predate his other published work by 7 years, assuming the stated date of publication is correct. I haven't read anything to back up the attribution to Alastair and a lot of sellers still describe the drawings as Beardleyesque so who knows? It seems that Hope-Johnstone ended up marrying into the German nobility so perhaps there is some connection there?Jimmynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045845679444796608.post-7084095725602841642012-01-04T10:37:55.267+00:002012-01-04T10:37:55.267+00:00If Alastair did illustrate Count Fanny's Nupt...If Alastair did illustrate Count Fanny's Nuptials ( and Maggs seems confident on this )he was an extraordinarily talented teenager.Is anything known of his association with Hope-Johnstone ?R.M.Healeynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045845679444796608.post-78096429464512524502011-12-30T12:18:20.097+00:002011-12-30T12:18:20.097+00:00I have a set of the Black Sun Dangerous Liaisons i...I have a set of the Black Sun Dangerous Liaisons in the remains of the silver foil slipcases. Can anyone recommend a restorer for these slipcases or is it not really worth it?Jimmynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045845679444796608.post-66138633281277519932011-12-30T10:32:30.383+00:002011-12-30T10:32:30.383+00:00For a cheap access to Alastair, buy the Dover edit...For a cheap access to Alastair, buy the Dover edition of his illustrations which came out last year. Quite definitive and excellent value.chazzanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045845679444796608.post-74593851857893455702011-12-30T00:46:37.052+00:002011-12-30T00:46:37.052+00:00Many thanks -- I have not seen that Nuptials book ...Many thanks -- I have not seen that Nuptials book for a while - not especially valuable and as you say not by Firbank, some say its publisher G.G. Hope Johnstone wrote it...will mention your interest to Robin. <br /><br />Sorry my last post contained a Trussism! NBookridehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05881971821359627382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045845679444796608.post-43998708687670996042011-12-30T00:36:06.830+00:002011-12-30T00:36:06.830+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.Bookridehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05881971821359627382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045845679444796608.post-77616387370557298362011-12-29T12:22:58.431+00:002011-12-29T12:22:58.431+00:00...not to forget Count Fanny's Nuptials, whose......not to forget Count Fanny's Nuptials, whose illustrations are often misattributed to Beardsley and whose text is often misattributed to Firbank. <br />P.S. Are your copies of the Wedekind plays viewable online?Jimmynoreply@blogger.com