Lot 363
Rattigan (Terence) Separate Tables, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, Hamish Hamilton, 1955; and 5 others by Rattigan (6)
Hammer Price: £650
Description
Rattigan (Terence) Separate Tables, first edition, with additionally signed postcard loosely inserted, 1955; French Without Tears, spine sunned, jacket with light toning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, light soiling, [1937]; After the Dance, chips and short tears to extremities, 1939; The Sleeping Prince, 1954; The Winslow Boy, New York, Dramatists Play Service, [1948], first or first American editions, signed presentation inscriptions from the author to endpapers, original cloth, dust-jackets, bumping and creasing to extremities, light marking or soiling to covers; all but the last by Hamish Hamilton, and another, Rattigan, 8vo (6)
⁂ Separate Tables and The Winslow Boy are both inscribed to his secretary Mary Herring, who began working for Rattigan in 1946 and was a close right-hand-person for the next seventeen years. The first also with postcard to Mary: "...Twenty days late! I have an excuse - writing a new play (in Brighton) But you thought up better ones in your time didn't you?...The play could be good, if I could only stop writing words and start writing something to act...know what I mean? who better? Terry".
Description
Rattigan (Terence) Separate Tables, first edition, with additionally signed postcard loosely inserted, 1955; French Without Tears, spine sunned, jacket with light toning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, light soiling, [1937]; After the Dance, chips and short tears to extremities, 1939; The Sleeping Prince, 1954; The Winslow Boy, New York, Dramatists Play Service, [1948], first or first American editions, signed presentation inscriptions from the author to endpapers, original cloth, dust-jackets, bumping and creasing to extremities, light marking or soiling to covers; all but the last by Hamish Hamilton, and another, Rattigan, 8vo (6)
⁂ Separate Tables and The Winslow Boy are both inscribed to his secretary Mary Herring, who began working for Rattigan in 1946 and was a close right-hand-person for the next seventeen years. The first also with postcard to Mary: "...Twenty days late! I have an excuse - writing a new play (in Brighton) But you thought up better ones in your time didn't you?...The play could be good, if I could only stop writing words and start writing something to act...know what I mean? who better? Terry".