DOCTORS OF PHILOSOPHY: A Play

by Muriel Spark

$500 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

First edition · Signed

London: Macmillian & Co Ltd, 1963. First edition. Inscribed first printing of Spark's only play, signed with love to a Howard, likely poet Howard Sergeant, with whom Spark was briefly involved in earlier years. Near fine in very good jacket. Item #40071 Bewilderingly witty, like a Tom Stoppard with teeth as well as brains. Of the play's nine characters, just three are men, all

• Printing: first

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