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  First Edition of Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party; Inscribed by Him to Director Alan Schneider, Whose Working Annotations Run Throughout the Text

  PINTER, Harold. [Alan Schneider].

  The Birthday Party and Other Plays.

  London: Methuen & Co, 1960.

  First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning playwright's modern classic, director Alan Schneider's own working copy, inscribed to him by the Nobel Prize-winning playwright. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "September 1961 To Alan from Harold." With Schneider's ownership signature to the front free endpaper, "Alan Schneider June 1960" and his annotations and markings throughout the text, providing fascinating insight into his vision for the production. Schneider directed the play's first Broadway production, which ran at the Booth Theatre from October 3, 1967 to January 20, 1968. James Patterson won the 1968 Tony Award for his portrayal of Stanley, and Ruth White was nominated for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her Meg. Schneider was among the foremost American directors of his generation, the American champion of Beckett, Pinter, and Albee, and his interpretation gave The Birthday Party the serious American hearing it had been denied at its origin. When the play first opened in London in 1958 it was savaged by the critics and closed within a week, only later recognized as the work that established the elliptical dialogue and atmosphere of dread now called Pinteresque. The annotations in this copy preserve the working notes by ...

  Price: $4,200.00     Item Number: 152172

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  FIRST EDITION OF THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING PLAYWRIGHT’S CLASSIC PLAY; SIGNED BY HAROLD PINTER

  PINTER, Harold.

  The Birthday Party.

  London: Methuen & Co, 1960.

  First edition of Pinter's modern classic. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Harold Pinter on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing to the extremities.

  Price: $2,200.00     Item Number: 3718

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