THE ENTERTAINER, a play by OSBORNE, John - 1958

Faber & Faber, 1965. Paperback. Good. 1965. Reprinted. 89 pages. Illustrated paper cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

London, Faber and Faber, 1957. Hardcover. Good.

London: Faber and Faber, 1957. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. Teal cloth. Light offsetting on title and half-title (from something once laid in) with a tiny bookseller label on rear pastedown, bumping at the foot of the spine, very good in a very good dust jacket with moderate soiling on the rear panel, and a lightly toned spine with a tiny tear at the crown. The basis for the 1960 British film directed by Tony Richardson, produced by Harry Saltzman and starring Laurence Olivier.

London: Faber & Faber, 1957. 1st. hardback. Near fine, 1st edition, missing d/j, text block firm, pages unmarked.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). Set against the backdrop of post-war Britain, John Osborne's The Entertainer conjures the seedy glamour of the old music halls for an explosive examination of public masks and private torment, a role made famous by Sir Laurence Olivier. First staged at the Royal Court Theatre, London, only eleven months after the opening of Osborne's iconic Look Back in Anger, the play has become a classic of twentieth-century drama.

Faber & Faber, London, 1957. First edition. 8vo, 89pp. Very good hardback copy in price-clipped dust jacket with minor tear to top edge. Browned endpapers with small bookplate to front free endpaper.

Faber and Faber, London, 1957. First Edition. Very good copy, endpapers very lightly offset. D/j in very good condition, spine yellowed, back stained and water damaged, p.c.

London; Faber and Faber, 1957., 1957. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp 89. Original jade green cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket with photograph by Tony Armstrong-Jones. Cover cloth lightly rubbed and top edge a little dusty; faint foxing to endpapers otherwise contents clean and fresh. Jacket toned, mainly to rear white panel, and repaired at head and tail of spine; reverse edges skilfully covered with cream adhesive tape. Overall a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. The follow-up to Osborne's runaway success "Look Back in Anger", "The Entertainer" starred Laurence Olivier as failing music-hall artist Archie Rice; the play used the entertainment scene as a metaphor for the changing world political situation and the fading British Empire.

Hardback. 1957. 89pp Faber & Faber 1957. 1st edition. VG in DW with slight snags, else VG .

Faber, London, 1957. 89pp. Cloth boards, little bumped. Top and bottom of spine little faded. Time stained d/w, creased and torn along top edge, lacking small portions from the top and bottom of the spine (not affecting titles). Two small tears along lower edge. Not price clipped. Contents time stained with brown smudge mark to two pages. Photograph on jacket by Tony Armstrong Jones. 21x14cms.

Hardback. 1957. 89pp Faber & Faber 1957. 1st edition. VG in VG dust jacket, not price clipped. .