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Verlag: Francis, Day & Hunter, 1111
Anbieter: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 152 pages. No dust jacket. Decorated orange cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Occasional thumb-marking present. Rubbed inscription to front free endpaper. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Crushing to spine ends with small splits and fraying to cloth. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Heavy splits to joints whit spin strip partially loose. Dark rubbing and stained marking overall.
Verlag: News Chronicle, 1111
Anbieter: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, Vereinigtes Königreich
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. VG condition book without dust jacket. Boards are clean with little wear. Book has clean and bright contents, endpapers toned, no inscriptions, scores and lyrics, 152pp.
Verlag: News Chronicle, London
Anbieter: Anthony Spranger, MARLBOROUGH, WILTS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
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Card. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 152pp. Semi stiff light brown covers with lettering on spine and illustrated front cover. Full Words and Music.
Verlag: The News Chronicle Publications Department, London, 1900
Anbieter: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Good. Paperback in good condition. The book does not have a publication year, and was not published in year 1900. Covers are worn and marked, with bumps to the edges and corners. Spine is faded and taped at the rear towards the spine foot. Spine is cocked and worn at the spine ends. Page block and endpapers are discoloured. FEP is clipped at the lower leading edge corner. Pages and text are otherwise clean and clear throughout. LW. Used.
Verlag: Francis Bros. & Day [1886], London, 1886
Anbieter: Colin Coleman Music, Stewkley, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Size: Folio. [i (title)], 5pp. Disbound, sewn. Pictorial coloured title image of Charles Coborn.
Verlag: News Chronicle
Anbieter: M and M Books, Barkway, HERTS, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Orange Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. No jacket. Former owners names. End papers slightly browned. Cloth slightly rubbed. 0.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1892
Anbieter: PRISCA, Paris, Frankreich
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Couverture souple. Zustand: Bon. Edition originale. In-4° broché, 2 pages "The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo" is a popular British music hall song of the 19th century, written in 1891 or 1892 by Fred Gilbert (Frederick Younge Gilbert, 1850 - 1903), a theatrical agent who had begun to write comic songs as a sideline some twenty years previously. The song was popularised by singer and comedian Charles Coborn, and quickly became a staple of his act, performed on tour in different languages throughout the world. Coborn confirmed that Gilbert's inspiration was the gambler and confidence trickster Charles Wells. Wells was reported to have won one-and-a-half million franc at the Monte Carlo casino, using the profits from previous fraud. (Some sources claim that he died penniless in 1926 but recent research suggests that this is not entirely accurate). However, others suggested as the model include Joseph Jagger (see Men who broke the bank at Monte Carlo) and Kenneth MacKenzie Clark, father of famed art historian Kenneth Clark. Coborn writes that he was acquainted with Gilbert, and it is thus likely that his account is correct. Coborn claims in his 1928 autobiography that to the best of his recollection he first sang the song in 'the latter part of 1891.' An advertisement in a London newspaper suggests, however, that he first performed it in public in mid-February 1892. The song remained popular from the 1890s until the late 1940s, and is still referenced in popular culture today. Songwriter Fred Gilbert never achieved comparable success with any subsequent composition. In 1898 he moved to the coastal village of Sandgate, Kent, after contracting tuberculosis. He died there, or nearby, in 1903. (Some published works give his place of death as Eltham, south-east London, but this is an error. The General Register Office index to deaths shows his place of death to be in the former registration district of Elham, Kent, in which Sandgate was situated). Upon his death his estate was valued at £8. Financier George Soros was called "The Man Who Broke the Bank of England"in 1992, following the infamous Black Wednesday which saw Britain's exit from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism. Charles Coborn (then aged 82) performs the song in both English and French in the 1934 British film Say It With Flowers. The song title inspired the 1935 US romantic comedy The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo. Although the song appears in the film, the narrative bears little relation to either the song or to the story of Charles Wells. The film and song were involved in the copyright case Francis, Day & Hunter Ltd v Twentieth Century Fox Corp. The song appears in Booth Tarkington's 1918 novel The Magnificent Ambersons, as well as in Orson Welles' 1942 film adaptation. In the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia, Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) sings the tune while riding across the desert to the camp of Prince Faisal. A short excerpt is included in the film The Railway Children. In Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow, Tyrone Slothrop, evidently knowing the song but not having understood the lyrics properly, spends time in Monte Carlo fruitlessly looking for the Bois de Boulogne. A parody titled The Tanks That Broke the Ranks Out in Picardy was written in 1916. The melody of the song is used in the season eleven episode of American Dad! "The Shrink". After the lead character, Stan, employs a CIA shrink ray in order to live in a miniature city of his own creation, the character sings "The Man Who Built the World in His Basement". In the film Alien: Covenant, in mimicry of his idol Lawrence of Arabia, the android David sings the words of the song's title while he is cutting his own hair in the mirror.