A Patriot for Me

by John Osborne

$48 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: Faber and Faber, 1966. Drama FIRST EDITION. Octavo 21 x 13cm , pp.128. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket by Dominic. Spotting to top edge. Price-clipped jacket rubbed to edges. Very good. A homosexual officer in the Austro-Hungarian army is blackmailed into spying for Russia in the years leading up to the First World War. First performed at the Royal Court Theatre in July 1965. Item #56263

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