The Birthday Party

by Harold PINTER

$30,000 · Offered by Between the Covers · No longer available

First edition · Signed

Softcover. First edition. A trifle rubbed, still fine in wrappers. The uncommon true first edition of Pinter's first play. Inscribed by him to his first wife Vivien Merchant: Dec. 59 To Vivien, Love D. The D. is for David. Pinter, who was also an actor, used the stage name David Baron and almost all his early material inscribed to Merchant is signed thus. Neither this edition, nor the first trade edition published by Methuen in England contained a printed

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