Harold Pinter | A collection of typescript plays presented to a lifelong friend, with related material, 1970-2008

Harold Pinter

A collection of 13 typescripts: 

Old Times, 88 pages, [1970], wrappers

No-Man's Land, [1974], 109 pages, wrappers, inscribed ("To Harold from Harold")

Betrayal, [1978], two-piece filing strip fastener, inscribed ("To Harold from Harold")

A Kind of Alaska, [1982], 43 pages, wrappers, 

Victoria Station, [1982], 21 pages, wrappers

Precisely, [1983], 4 pages, stapled, dated in pencil "Apr 83"

One for the Road, 26 pages, 1984, wrappers, with autograph presentation note signed, headed stationery of 7 Hanover Terrace, London, 13 January [1984]

Mountain Language, 17 pages, [1988], ring-bound, with compliments slip

The Dwarves, [c.1990], 257 pages, ring-bound

Party Time, 46 pages, [1991], ring-bound

Ashes to Ashes, 51 pages, [1996], ring-bound, inscribed ("To Harold + Heather from Harold")

Celebration, 1999, 51 pages, ring-bound, compliments slip

Sleuth, screenplay, 91 pages, 2005, ring-bound, compliments slip

[with:] Art, Truth & Politics: The Nobel Lecture. [London, Faber and Faber, n.d.] First edition, 8vo, one of 1000 copies, original wrappers, inscribed ("To Harold & Heather from Harold"), compliments slip; fax, secretarial letter, and press release relating to the Nobel Award and Harold and Heather Goodman's attendance as guest of Pinter, 2005; Pinter, copy letter, to Tony Blair, relating to the Nobel Prize, 2006; another copy letter, 2006; Pinter's funeral order of service (2 copies); press cuttings

[also with:] [Antonia Fraser], Our Israeli Dairy, [1978], photocopy typescript, 52 pages

Harold Goodman and Harold Pinter were school friends in Hackney in the 1940s. They reconnected in the 1950s when Pinter was working as an actor and Goodman as an accountant. Goodman became Pinter's accountant and the two men remained friends until Pinter's death in 2008.