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Used; Very Good. Donlon Books, London, 2013 Hardcover. Flat signed by both Isla Colsell and Philip Hoare. Text is clean and unmarked. Book Condition; Very Good <br />Malicious Damage is an account of one of the most intriguing events in book lore: the campaign by upstart playwrights Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell to steal hundreds of books from London libraries in the 1960s, deface them as an act of criticism (both literary and against the library system itself) and then secretly return them to the stacks for unsuspecting patrons to find. . 0. HARDCOVER.