Lot 633
Stoppard, Tom
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Description
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead. London: Faber and Faber, 1967. First edition, publisher's blue cloth, dustwrappers, corner of wrapper with price cut off, loosely inserted is a signed photograph of the author; [Idem] Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead. London: Faber and Faber, 1967. First paperback edition, publisher's printed wrappers; [Idem] Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead. London: Faber and Faber, 1967. Reprint edition, publisher's printed wrappers, signed by Tom Stoppard to Bruce Ritchie on the half-title; [Idem] Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead: the film. London: Faber and Faber, 1991. 8vo., publisher's printed wrappers [4]
Footnote
Note: Baker & Wachs A1a & b. Stoppard's first published play. "It was in boards and the boards were important. Rosecrantz and Guildenstern are dead was about as slim as a hardback could be, but it was a proper book. A paperback would not have felt the same." Quoted by Baker & Wachs pp. 1-2. The second paperback edition above referred to as the "Reprint edition" differs from Baker & Wachs "c" in that while on the verso of the titlepage it has "Reprinted May mcmlxvii" it does not have the words "Second edition in October mcmlxvii".