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  First Edition of Pinter's Tea Party and Other Plays; Inscribed by Him to His American Director Alan Schneider

  PINTER, Harold [Alan Schneider].

  Tea Party and Other Plays.

  London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1967.

  First edition of Pinter's collection of three plays originally written for television. Duodecimo, original cloth. A remarkable association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the title page, "May 67 To Alan With love Harold." Additionally signed by its recipient, director Alan Schneider, on the front free endpaper. Alan Schneider (1917-1984), the Russian-born American director, served as Pinter's principal interpreter on the American stage, directing the American premieres of The Birthday Party, The Collection and The Dumb Waiter (winning an Obie Award for the latter) and, at the time of his death in 1984, directing Pinter's Other Places for the Manhattan Theatre Club. He was equally celebrated as Samuel Beckett's trusted American director and as the director of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, for which he won the 1963 Tony Award. The warmth of the present inscription, made in May 1967 as the two men's collaboration was flourishing, attests to the close friendship between playwright and director; though the American stage premiere of Tea Party and The Basement (New York, 1968) fell to another director, Schneider remained Pinter's foremost champion before American audiences. Very good in a very good dust jacket. An exceptional association co...

  Price: $2,250.00     Item Number: 152191

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