FRONT LINE THEATRE. [Author SIGNED copy.]

UK,slim 12mo HB minus dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn. VG+. No owner inscrptn,but author's blue ink handwritten dedication,signature and date: 'With regards Waldini 1947' to front free endpaper,minus issued dw/dj.Generally bright and clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original air-force blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked black ink lettering to front board and spine/backstrip and clean,foxing-free plain white endpapers - author's inscrptn and an oblique brown linear stain to top corner of ffe excepted.A smallish blemish towards lower edge of front board,all corners with merest hint of miniscule rubbing and fraying.Top edges aged/dust-soiled,fore-edges less aged and brighter; contents bright,tight,clean and solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread - apart from my own collation? UK,slim 12mo HB, author SIGNED,1st edn,vii-xpp+1-190pp [paginated] includes author's foreword,an introduction,28 sections/ chapters,10 double-sided historical,contemporary b/w photographs interspersed throughout the text and the book; plus [unpaginated] title page,and separate contents and illustrations lists/ tables.
Story/memoirs of ENSA entertainers during WW II.
Waldini (b. 1894 – d. 5 January,1966) was the stage name of Wallace (Wally) Bishop,a musician, band leader and impresario born in Cardiff, South Wales,in 1894. His career spanned six decades,each providing its own challenges that were met head on by the man known to some as The Great Waldini and to others as Cardiff's Mr Music.
During World War II,he was invited by Jack Hylton on behalf of ENSA,to take his Gypsy Band to entertain the British and Commonwealth Forces at home and abroad; he later wrote of this experience in his self-published book 'Front Line Theatre'.
After the war Waldini and his Gypsy Band appeared during the summer months at holiday resorts throughout the UK,most notably Llandudno in North Wales and Ilfracombe in Devon.For the last two years of his life he toured with his all-female band The Fabs,entertaining troops again,but this time at army bases on the Rhine.
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