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The Caretaker.
PINTER, Harold.Original price £325.00 - Original price £325.00Original price £0.00£325.00£325.00 - £325.00Current price £325.00| /Presentation copy. First Methuen edition, inscribed by the author on the verso of the half-title, ' Aug 1960. To Peter from Harold.' The recipient ...
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Under Milk Wood.
THOMAS, Dylan.Original price £575.00 - Original price £575.00Original price £0.00£575.00£575.00 - £575.00Current price £575.00| /First edition in book form of Thomas' last work. Originally commissioned as a BBC radio drama, the play was first broadcast on 25 January 1954 and...
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Oh! Calcutta!
TYNAN, Kenneth.Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00Original price £0.00£125.00£125.00 - £125.00Current price £125.00| /First edition of the controversial musical ensemble, which was performed mostly in the nude. Authors who contributed skits to the show include Tyn...
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Swanson on Swanson.
SWANSON, Gloria.Original price £550.00 - Original price £550.00Original price £0.00£550.00£550.00 - £550.00Current price £550.00| /Multiple signatories. First edition of Swanson's memoirs, signed by the author and seven other celebrities who attended a Foyles Literary Luncheon ...
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The Caretaker.
PINTER, Harold.Original price £200.00 - Original price £200.00Original price £0.00£200.00£200.00 - £200.00Current price £200.00| /True first edition, preceding the Methuen hardback edition of the same year. Pinter's first commercial success, first performed at the Arts Theatr...
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Chips with Everything.
WESKER, Arnold.Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00Original price £0.00£125.00£125.00 - £125.00Current price £125.00| /First edition of a major English Stage Company play. 'A drama of striking power, intensity and conviction' (New York Post).First edition, first im...
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Loot.
ORTON, Joe.Original price £325.00 - Original price £325.00Original price £0.00£325.00£325.00 - £325.00Current price £325.00| /Orton's second staged play, widely regarded as a comic masterpiece. Winner of the 1966 Evening Standard Drama Award for best play.First edition, c...
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Look Back in Anger.
OSBORNE, John.Original price £175.00 - Original price £175.00Original price £0.00£175.00£175.00 - £175.00Current price £175.00| /Osborne's highly autobiographical play concerns a love triangle involving an intelligent and educated but disaffected young man of working-class o...
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The Knack.
JELLICOE, Ann.Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £0.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00| /First hardback edition of Jellicoe's best-known play, much scarcer than the first paperback edition published two years prior.The Knack was first ...
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Voices at Play.
SPARK, Muriel.Original price £95.00 - Original price £95.00Original price £0.00£95.00£95.00 - £95.00Current price £95.00| /A stunning copy of part of the early Spark oeuvre, containing four plays and six short stories.First edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked inte...
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Plays Modelled on the Noh (1916).
POUND, Ezra; GALLUP, Donald C. (editor).Original price £75.00 - Original price £75.00Original price £0.00£75.00£75.00 - £75.00Current price £75.00| /One of 500 copies. Number 132 of 500 copies. With an introduction by Pound bibliographer Donald C. Gallup.First edition, number 132 of 500 copies; ...
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Les Quatre fous, oeuvre tragique. Script project for a Commedia dell'arte [together with] two schoolbooks from courses taken at the École du Louvre.
BARRAULT, Jean-Louis.Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £0.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00| /An unrecorded playscript together with two schoolbooks from the École du Louvre, dated 1930-31, in the hand of the great actor and mime artist Jea...
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John Gielgud:
GIELGUD, [Sir] John.Original price £300.00 - Original price £300.00Original price £0.00£300.00£300.00 - £300.00Current price £300.00| /Inscribed. Hallam Fordham (d.1955), a radio presenter, a theatre producer and biographer. Jonathan Mayne is likely the 'Jon' with which N. Smith si...
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[Three Acting Editions of Osborne's Early Plays]
OSBORNE, John.Original price £225.00 - Original price £225.00Original price £225.00£225.00£225.00 - £225.00Current price £225.00| /Three acting editions. Evans Brothers Limited is an independent company founded in 1908 by Sir Robert Evans and his brother Edward specialising in ...
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Brighton Rock.
GREENE, Graham.Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00| /First edition. The first edition, published in New York, of Greene's (1904-1991) classic murder-thriller Brighton Rock. The original pictorial dust...
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Saved.
BOND, Edward.Original price £675.00 - Original price £675.00Original price £0.00£675.00£675.00 - £675.00Current price £675.00| /First hardback edition - with autograph material. First hardback edition of Saved, a play focussing on the cultural poverty and frustration of a ge...
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Cabaret.
MASTEROFF, Joe; KANDER, John (music); EBB, Fred (lyrics).Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /Presentation copy. From the collection of Clive Hirschhorn, who for decades was the film and theatre critic for the London Sunday Express, with Mas...
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The Map of Love.
THOMAS, Dylan.Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00| /Only 1000 copies were issued, with this being in the earliest state with the publisher's name on the spine in blind and the purple topstain. First...
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