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The Cocktail Party: A Comedy First edition.
by Eliot, T. S
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
-
Eynsham, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Faber & Faber, 1950. First edition. Hardback. Good/Fair. Faber & Faber, London, 1950. First edition. Book condition: good. A little colour fade around the edges. Slight bumping to the corners and some minor creasing to lower corners of several pages. Internally clean and unmarked. Dust Jacket: fair. Unclipped. Generally rubbed and soiled. Slight loss to extremities of spine, chipping to corners. Several small closed tears. Spine discoloured. Jacket in protective sleeve. This is the text which was first produced at the Edinburgh Festival of 1949 and repeated a year later in Brighton preparatory to a season in New York. Several alterations were made to the text subsequent to the Edinburgh production. A list of the original cast is included and the score of 'One-Eyed Riley'.
Synopsis
A modern verse play about the search for meaning, in which a psychiatrist is the catalyst for the action. “An authentic modern masterpiece” (New York Post). “Eliot really does portray real-seeming characters. He cuts down his poetic effects to the minimum, and then finally rewards us with most beautiful poetry” (Stephen Spender).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ariadne Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1305163
- Title
- The Cocktail Party: A Comedy First edition.
- Author
- Eliot, T. S
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1950
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Plays,T. S. Eliot
- Bookseller catalogs
- Plays & Theatre;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Ariadne Books
Biblio member since 2018
Eynsham, Oxfordshire
About Ariadne Books
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- Fair
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- New
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- Edges
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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