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"The Unloved is a brutal and deadpan glimpse into both the past and the future." jacket blurbThe dust jacket has remains of a small sticker on the rear and some remains of a small sticker glue on front. (ask for photos) Otherwise a very nice copy of this collectable first edition.

Signed to the seller and dated: "15/5/89Stefan - Love from Deborah." (see photo)As good as new!
For collectors of this now best-selling British author with a South African Jewish background.

Signed inscription:
'8/8/89 Stef - to all your great ideas Deborah x'
This is a rare type of personal inscription imo.
For collectors of the early work of this top drawer British Author.

This was a catalogue for a selected exhibition of Bigos printmakers in St Pauls Contemporary Art Gallery in Leeds.This inclusive group was organised by Stefan Szczelkun and Kasia Januszko. 6 Polish artists mostly have 2 pages each to introduce themselves with b/w illustration of an example of their work. Foreword by James Hamilton. Introduction by JerzyStrutynski.An essential guide to anyone interested in the culture emanating from the post war (born) generation of Polish emigres. The group started in 1986 and went on to have a touring show in Poland starting in Sandomierz. Unique at the time. Includes an illustrated report on a previous Bigos show in Worcester City Art Gallery.Now archived by the Tate Archive, London.This show supported by WYG West Yorkshire Grants.

"This book studies the cultural and economic status of playwriting in the later 17th and early 18th centuries, and argues that the period was a decisive one in the transition from Renaissance conceptions of authorship towards modern ones. In Shakespeare's time, creative originality and independence of voice had been little prized. Playwrights had appropriated materials from earlier writings with little censure, while the practice of collaboration among dramatists had been taken for granted. The book demonstrates that, in the decades following the Restoration, those attitudes were challenged by new conceptions of dramatic art, which required authors to be the sole begetters of their works. This book explores a series of developments in the theatrical marketplace that increased both the rewards and the prestige of the dramatist, and shows the Restoration period to have been one of serious and animated debate about the methods of playwriting. Against that background, the book offers a fresh account of… Read More

English & French text. colour & b/w illustrations. paperback (near fine). Nantes: Musee des Beaux-Arts, 1988.
Exhibition catalogue.
Photographers: Stuart Brisley, Hannah Collins, John Davies, Willy Doherty, Craigie Horsfield, Chris Killip, Jo Spence, Boyd Webb.
All have several full page photographs printed on art grade paper.
A great resource for anyone wanting to study this period of photography in UK.

As new condition