Pinter, Harold

The Birthday Party. Encore Publishing, 1959, original paperback, SIGNED BY PINTER; The Birthday Party and other plays. Methuen, 1960, first hardback edition;  The Dwarfs and Eight Revue Sketches. New York: Dramatists Play Service Inc., 1965, paperback, first American acting edition; Tea Party and other Plays. Methuen, 1967, first hardback edition, 1967; Landscape. Emmanuel Wax for Pendragon Press, 1968, NO.367 OF 1,000 COPIES FOR SALE IN THE UK, presentation copy inscribed by Peggy Ashcroft (who starred in the original radio broadcast of the play in April 1968) to the artist Trekkie Parsons, original patterned boards; another copy; Landscape and Silence. Methuen, 1969, first hardback edition; another copy, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY PINTER TO HIS FRENCH TRANSLATOR ERIC KAHANE ("To Eric from Harold!"), dust-jacket; Old Times. Methuen, 1971; another edition, ONE OF 150 COPIES, OF WHICH THIS IS ONE OF 18 HORS DE COMMERCE SIGNED BY PINTER; Five Screenplays. H. Karnac, 1971, NO.26 OF 150 COPIES SIGNED BY PINTER, glassine jacket; Mac. Emanuel Wax for Pendragon Press, 1968, NO.223 OF 1,000 COPIES SIGNED BY PINTER; The Dwarfs. Faber and Faber, 1990, first hardback edition, SIGNED BY PINTER, dust-jacket; another edition, London Limited Editions, 1990, NO.104 OF 150 SPECIALLY BOUND  COPIES; Various Voices. Faber and Faber, 1998, first hardback edition, dust-jacket; Poems. Enitharmon Press, 1968, NO.130 OF 200 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES; Poems. Enitharmon Press, 1971; I Know the Place. Warwick: the Greville Press, 1977, NO.309 OF 500 COPIES SIGNED BY PINTER, drawings by Michael Kenny; Poems and Prose 1949--1977. Eyre Methuen, 1978, first hardback edition, dust-jacket;  together with a collection of 8 programmes for The Caretaker, Landscape and Silence, The Birthday Party and other works; and 24 others works by the playwright (8vo)

The theatre critic David Gillard MBE

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