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".

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