[ Sir Charles Wyndham and Percy Burton, translators. ] Typewritten drafts, with extensive emendations in Wyndham's autograph, of 'The Blind Passenger. A Play in Three Acts by Oscar Blumenthal and Gustav Hadelburg.'
Item Three below does not name the translators, while Items One and Two do not. Item Three has the characters' names anglicised and the text more stilted than that of One and Two. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. ONE: Typescript of the whole play, with each of the three acts bound separately. 127pp., 4to. The first two acts bound in grey card wraps, with typed labels on covers, the unbound leaves of the third act attached with a brass stud. First two acts with stamp of Miss Christian of the Trafalgar Type Writing Office, London. Extensive emendations throughout the first two acts, including substantial additions in Wyndham's autograph on versos facing the rectos carrying the typescript, and loose leaves of typed text pinned in. TWO: Act Two of the play, laid out as Item One above, and incorporating the manuscript changes to it, and with one minor manuscript addition. [1] + 44pp., 4to. On unbound leaves bound with brass studs. THREE: Act One only of ''The Blind Passenger. A Play in Three Acts by Oscar Blumenthal and Gustav Hadelburg. Adapted from the German by Sir Charles Wyndham and Percy Burton.' WorldCat only notes a New York publication of an English translation. Note: Percy Burton hardly gets a footnote but the odd snippet: "Mr Percy Burton, impresario and manager of such stars as Sarah Bernhardt and Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree"... Bristol Theatre Collection claims an unlisted Percy Burton Collection .