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The theatres of George Devine
by WARDLE, Irving
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 1978. xvi, 295pp. With four leaves of photographs. Original publisherâs black cloth, brown label lettered gilt to spine, top edge aubergine. Overall a little shaken with light markings. Internally bright and clean. Inscribed 'Dear Larry, Happy Birthday, John Dexter' and further signed by a multitude of theatrical contemporaries, including Peggy Ashcroft, John Gielgud, Margaret Tyzack, Vivian Pickles, Lindsay Anderson, Mary OâMalley, and many more. Someone also appears to have signed âHenry Irvingâ, though this is almost certainly in jest. Though he died some twelve years prior to Theatres being published, George Devine was a close friend of Olivier over many years, including acting together in Olivierâs production of The Skin of Our Teeth alongside both Olivier and Leigh. Devineâs professional goal 'was to get writers, writers of serious pretensions, back into the theatre', and thus to make the theatre 'part of the intellectual life of the country'. With this in mind, he formed the English Stage Company, based at the Royal Court Theatre in Sloane Square, London, in 1955. Their fourth production, John Osborne's Look Back in Anger, became one of their most important productions. While the inscription is undated, many of Olivier's friends and contemporaries were gathered in 1987 at the National, attending a tribute to him in honour of his eightieth birthday, which seems a likely occasion for this signed gift. From the library of Laurence Olivier, now dispersed, to whom many of these books were gifted over the length of his illustrious, industrious, and enduring career as one of the most important figures of stage and screen in the 20th century. . First edition. 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AQ31187
- Title
- The theatres of George Devine
- Author
- WARDLE, Irving
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1978
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Plays, Theatre
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Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
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