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London: H. Karnac (Books) Ltd.. Fine+ in Fine dust jacket. 1978. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 0413396207 . A most handsome Numbered first edition/first printing limited to 150 copies in Very Fine condition in original acetate dust-jacket, SIGNED by author Harold Pinter. Specially bound in attractive red and black cloth with embossed gold lettering; The play begins in the present and moves backward in time, from the end affair between Emma and Jerry to its beginning nine years earlier. In the present, Emma's marriage to Robert is breaking up, and needing someone to talk to, she meets with Jerry who is Robert's best friend. Winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize for literature; 12mo ; Signed by Author .

London: Encore Publishing Co. Ltd. Fine. 1960. First Edition; First Printing. Pamphlet. A handsome stapled pamphlet in Fine condition with a touch of browning to covers. True first edition preceding the Methuen edition published in the same year; Nobel Laureate Pinter's play in three acts is set in West London in 1959, involving the interaction of a tramp (Davies) , a mentally challenged younger man (Aston) and his younger brother (Mick). It was first performed at the Arts Theatre, London on 27th of April 1960 with the following cast: Mick, Alan Bates; Aston, Peter Woodthorpe; Davies, Donald Pleasence. Film version released in 1964, directed by Clive Donner; Thin 8vo .

London: Enitharmon Press. Fine+. 2002. Limited Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 190056498x . A most handsome Limited deluxe edition in Very Fine condition in Very Fine Slipcase. This copy is number 48 of 75 signed deluxe edition copies (plus 20 hors commerce copies). SIGNED by author Harold Pinter and artist Tony Bevan . Printed on fine Arches Vélin paper and specially bound in attractive rust colored cloth in alike slipcase. Includes a signed and numbered original etching by Tony Bevan; This selection of The Disappeared and 28 other poems was made by Harold Pinter and Stephen Stuart-Smith from Pinter's previously published works. The accompanying color plates are reproductions of paintings by Tony Bevan made between 1986 and 2002. Poems include God, It is Here, Joseph Brearley 1909-1977, I Know the Place, Daylight, The Second Visit, Book of Mirrors and others; Color Illustrations; 4to; Signed by Author & Illustrator .

London: Enitharmon Press. Fine+. 2002. Limited Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 1900564041 . A most handsome Limited edition in Very Fine condition. This book is number 152 of 175 signed copies in the Regular and deluxe editions (plus 45 hors commerce copies). This copy is SIGNED by author Harold Pinter and artist Tony Bevan. Printed on fine Arches Vélin paper and specially bound in attractive rust colored cloth; This selection of The Disappeared and 28 other poems was made by Harold Pinter and Stephen Stuart-Smith from Pinter's previously published works. The accompanying color plates are reproductions of paintings by Tony Bevan made between 1986 and 2002. Poems include God, It is Here, Joseph Brearley 1909-1977, I Know the Place, Daylight, The Second Visit, Book of Mirrors and others; Color Illustrations; 4to; Signed by Author & Illustrator .

New York: Grove Weidenfeld. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1990. First US Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0802113850 . A Fine first printing of the first American edition in equally Fine dust-jacket. Signed by author Harold Pinter directly on the title-page; Written in 1950 and revised for this publication, The Dwarfs is Pinter's only novel. Set in postwar Britain, it is the story of the intertwined lives and concerns of four young Londoners and the powerful, sometimes destructive forces at work among them. Pinter explores how ordinary lives are molded by the limitations and boundaries of sexuality, intimacy and mortality; 8vo; [viii], 183, [1] pages; Signed by Author .

London: H. Karnac (Books) Ltd.. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1971. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 0394488210 . A handsome specially bound edition limited to 150 copies in unread Fine condition in original acetate dust-jacket SIGNED and numbered by author Harold Pinter. Bound in attractive red and black cloth with embossed gold lettering; The five screenplays included in this volume are: The Servant, based on the novel by Robin Maugham; The Pumpkin Eater, based on the novel by Penelope Mortimer; The Quiller Memorandum, based on the novel The Berlin Memorandum by Adam Hall; Accident based on the novel by Nicholas Mosley; and The Go-Between based on the novel by L. P. Hartley ; 8vo ; Signed by Author .

London: H. Karnac (Books) Ltd.. Fine+ in Fine dust jacket. 1971. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 0394488210 . A most handsome specially bound edition limited to 150 copies in Very Fine condition in original acetate dust-jacket, SIGNED and numbered by author Harold Pinter. Bound in attractive red and black cloth with embossed gold lettering; The five screenplays included in this volume are: The Servant, based on the novel by Robin Maugham; The Pumpkin Eater, based on the novel by Penelope Mortimer; The Quiller Memorandum, based on the novel The Berlin Memorandum by Adam Hall; Accident based on the novel by Nicholas Mosley; and The Go-Between based on the novel by L. P. Hartley ; 8vo ; Signed by Author .

Warwick: The Greville Press. Fine+. [1977]. Limited Edition. Full-Leather. A most handsome, leather-bound edition, limited to 500 copies, in Very Fine condition. SIGNED by author Harold Pinter; Eleven poems by author Harold Pinter dated from 1953 to 1977 ; Color Illustrations; 12mo ; [28], 4 plates pages; Second copy is numbered 113, separate signature scan is already in Secondary Images folder and just needs to be renamed and uploaded upon sale of first copy. ; Signed by Author .

Warwick: The Greville Press. Fine. [1977]. Limited Edition. Full-Leather. A handsome, leather-bound edition, limited to 500 copies, this one being #137, in unread Fine condition. SIGNED by author Harold Pinter; Eleven poems by author Harold Pinter dated from 1953 to 1977 ; Color Illustrations; 12mo ; [28], 4 plates pages; Signed by Author .

London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0297785915 . A handsome first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike, price-clipped dustjacket. SIGNED by playwright Harold Pinter to his wife, Lady Antonia Fraser ("To A, Love H"); Based on long conversations with her mother and also on her mother's voluminous writings, Chitty's outspoken memoir of Antonia White is the first full account of the author of Frost in May (and three other novels. ) To her public Antonia was the gentle sensitive heroine of her stories; in real life she lived to be eighty and was never gentle. She was haunted by insanity and seemed a distant and frightening figure to her young daughters ; 8vo ; Signed by Author .

London: H. Karnac (Books) Ltd.. Fine+. 1971. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 0950164712 . A most handsome Numbered first edition/first printing limited to 150 copies in Very Fine condition in original acetate dust-jacket, SIGNED by author Harold Pinter. Specially bound in attractive red and black cloth with embossed gold lettering; Set in an elegant but decaying house in London's Hampstead Heath, No Man's Land explores the space between the present and the remembered past, between reality and imagination. The main characters, Hirst and Spooner, both in their sixties, share conversation and a drink. Do they know each other, or is each performing an elaborate charade of recognition? The ambiguity and comedy heighten when two younger men arrive, ostensibly a manservant and a male secretary; 12mo ; Signed by Author .

London: Eyre Methuen Ltd. Fine+ in Fine dust jacket. 1985. Revised Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0413589501 . A most beautiful Revised and Illustrated edition/first printing in Very Fine condition in Fine dustjacket showing the typical slight delamination along the spine, this copy is SIGNED by author Harold Pinter directly on the title page; An interrogator in an unnamed totalitarian state torments a prisoner, his wife and child. In an interview commissioned to introduce this revised edition, Pinter traces his own political development from his earliest plays to the present and his fight against torture and nuclear weaponry. Photographs of Pinter's premiere production at the Lyric Theater accompany the text ; Photographs; 8vo; Signed by Author .

London: Enitharmon Press. Fine+. 1971. Second Edition. Cloth. 090111135X . A beautiful second edition published 3 years after the 1968 first edition with additional poems. In Very Fine condition original, slightly chipped acetate cover. This copy is number 88 of 100, SIGNED by author and Nobel Prize winning Harold Pinter on the limitation page. Includes the original errata slip, correcting the poem title on page 22 and the typo "climed" for "climbed" on page 41; Contains 28 of Harold Pinter's poems, selected by Alan Clodd. Some of the poems already appeared before in Poetry Quarterly, Poetry London, New Poems 1957, The Twentieth Century, The Window, The Glass, The Observer, and The Literary Supplement; 8vo; Signed by Author .

London: Methuen & Company. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1967. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition/first Impression in about Fine condition, title page and opposite page ever so slightly browned (likely from inlaid newspaper clip) in very Nearly Fine dust-wrapper, very slightly rubbed. Signed by author and Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter on the title page; Pinter's play, adapted from his own 1964 short story of the same title. The screenplay was first transmitted on BBC Television in March 1965 with Pinter's first wife Vivien Merchant as Wendy, the first stage production was in October 1968 as part of a double bill with Pinter's play The Basement; 12mo; 115, [5] pages; Signed by Author .

London: Methuen & Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1967. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition/first Impression in unread Fine condition in alike, ever so slightly rubbed dust-wrapper; Pinter's play, adapted from his own 1964 short story of the same title. The screenplay was first transmitted on BBC Television in March 1965 with Pinter's first wife Vivien Merchant as Wendy, the first stage production was in October 1968 as part of a double bill with Pinter's play The Basement; 12mo; 115, [5] pages .