Look Back In Anger

London: Faber & Faber, 1957. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First hard bound edition (previously published a few weeks before in a soft bound acting edition) of Osborne's seminal autobiographical play, which spawned the phrase "angry young men" to describe the antiestablishment postwar generation of English writers. Slim crown 8vo (204 x 119mm): 96pp. Publisher's brown cloth, spine lettered… Read more about this item

New York: Criterion Books, 1957. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition from British sheets. Faint offsetting from a clipping and a tiny note in the hand of actress Marian Seldes, both on the front fly, else near fine in very near fine dustwrapper.

London: Faber and Faber, 1957 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Very Good. 8.5" by 5.5". None. The first edition, first impression of this influential 'kitchen sink drama' from English playwright and screenwriter John Osborne. The first edition, first impression of John Osborne's important realist play, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Focussing on the life and… Read more about this item

London: Evans Brothers Limited, 1957. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Wrappers. Pencil mark (we suspect it is a name, so have not erased it, but it is erasable) on front wrap, publisher's rubberstamped notice to amateurs dated in June, 1958 on p.(6), a very good copy of the true first, acting edition. Important postwar play that caught its… Read more about this item

[JOHN OSBORNE]. LOOK BACK IN ANGER. Criterion Books / Bantam Books Inc., New York, 1959. First Edition from Bantam. Bantam # 2034 with original 35 cents on cover price. Condition: Very Good. With minor micro chips, light creases and minor rubbing on spine typical of pulp fiction books of this age, otherwise barely read, pages are clean and binding… Read more about this item

Cambridge Arts Theatre - English Stage Company Limited, 1957. 1st edition.. Paperback. Stapled pamphlet, G. 12pp, adverts, covers a little creased & the paper tanned. Theatre programme for a production of Osborne's 'Angry Young Man' play which had Premiered at London's Royal Court Theatre, on 8 May 1956. The CAT production featured Alan Dobie as Jimmy Porter.

Faber and Faber, 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG+/VG. 1st Edition. 12.7 x 20.9 cm brown cloth with gilt stamped titles to the spine, 96pp, in unclipped dust jacket priced at 10s 6d. A very good plus copy with just a hint of dulling to the gilt on the spine and a little shelfwear along the bottom… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber, 1957. First UK Edition, preceding all others. One of the first examples of the kitchen sink drama, basis for the 1959 British film directed by Tony Richardson, starring Richard Burton and Mary Ure. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Slight spine lean, with faded board edges and faint offsetting… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber, (1957). First edition of his first published play. AUTOGRAPH PERSONAL NOTECARD SIGNED BY OSBORNE laid in. The "angry young men" were a group of mostly working- and middle-class British playwrights and novelists who became prominent in the 1950s. The group's leading figures included Osborne was one of the original British "angry young men," a phrase… Read more about this item

London: Evans Brothers, 1957. Paperback; first edition with publisher's prohibition stamp on page 6. Comes in a plastic protective cover. Some light foxing and faint marks to page block and light foxing at upper edge of front cover. Binding is sound and internally pages are clean with clear text. AD. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Used.

New York: Criterion Books, 1957. Second printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. 6 x 9 in. Cloth and paper boards. Condition is NEAR FINE ; like new but toned on the edges. Unmarked. DJ is VERY GOOD+ ; not clipped ($2.75) very clean, small open tear to spine head. Drama. RGR.

London : FABER & FABER Ltd, 1960 Internal near Fine.Covers Good -Black & Red Card wraps with white titles .195x130 mm approx. 96pp. First Edition 1st printing of the celebrated stage play in Faber's Paper covered Editions format. Overall VG. No previous owner name or insc. No annotations, binding sound, clean throughout ) Covers med.shelf-wear & edgwear col.rub/loss/fading.… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber,, 1957. Signed by the author First edition, first impression, signed by the author on the title page, "John Osborne, 8.9.89." From the library of Dr Philip Murray, Irish book collector and author of The Adventures of a Book Collector (2011), though unmarked as such. Octavo. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket.… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber,, 1957. First edition, first impression, of this landmark play which was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on 8 May 1956. It spawned the term "angry young men" and won Osborne the Evening Standard Drama Award as the most promising playwright of 1956. Octavo. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust… Read more about this item

New York: Criterion Books, 1957. Cloth. Very good/very good. 8vo. Cloth. Dust jacket. 96 pp. Minor shelf wear to jacket and some very small chips at header of spine. Browning in gutter. Signed on title page by the great bookseller Paul Rohe, its former owner. This is an early printing of Osborne's classic 1956 play.

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery. 2009. Near Fine; Hardcover; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 75 pages, bound in glossy pictorial cover. Essay, 20 color plates, exhibition chronology; checklist of exhibition. Very Good book, clean, tightly bound, sharp corners. Light shelf rubbingon back cover. Pages crisp, unmarked. Accurate ISBN 1930416474. .

Brown Cloth Boards with gilt lettering on spine. Ink markings plus inked former owner and date (1961) on front free endpaper. FFEP has small hole in upper left of page, in addition to some foxing. From title page on there are no marks on text. Binding is tight, some foxing on page edges and foxing on back of… Read more about this item

Chicago: Dramatic Publishing Company, 1959. Softcover. Very Good. Reprint. 12mo. 79pp. Pictorial wrappers. Owner name on front fly, tiny stain on foredge with modestly rubbed and soiled wrappers, very good.

New York: Criterion Books, 1957. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First American edition (from British sheets). Fine in slightly age-toning, very good dustwrapper with a couple of tiny tears and a large stain on the rear panel, visible only on the inside of the jacket.

New York: Criterion Books, Inc., 1957. Previous owners penned initials on ffep.; 96pp.. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.