Loot by Joe Orton, First Edition (27 results)

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A black farce masterpiece, Loot follows the fortunes of two young thieves, Hal and Dennis. Dennis is a hearse driver for an undertaker. They have robbed the bank next door to the funeral parlour and have returned to Hal's home to hide-out with the loot. Hal's mother has just died and the pair put the money in her coffin, hiding the body elsewhere in the house. With the arrival of Inspector Truscott, the thickened plot turns topsy-turvy. Playing with all the conventions of popular farce, Orton creates a world gone mad and examines in detail English attitudes at mid-century. The play has been called a Freudian nightmare, which sports with superstitions about death - and life. It is regularly produced in professional and amateur productions.First produced in London in 1966, LOOT was hailed as "the most genuinely quick-witted, pungent and sprightly entertainment by a new, young British playwright for a decade" (Sunday Telegraph) One of the most enduring comedies of the modern British stage Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Original Wraps. Condition: Good. First Edition. Paperback edition - there was a simultaneous hardcover edition. Covers have pulled away from the text block at the rear and there is a tape mark running down the inside of the rear cover and the final page where the previous owner has tried to repair this. Text block is tightly bound and secure at the front of the book. Initials of previous owner (Andrew Kennedy, academic and writer) to top corner of first page. A few small notes in ink to the inside of the rear cover. Light rubbing along the edges of the covers. First printing. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A black farce masterpiece, Loot follows the fortunes of twoyoung thieves, Hal and Dennis. Dennis is a hearse driver for anundertaker. They have robbed the bank next door to the funeral parlourand have returned to Hal's home to hide-out with the loot. Hal's motherhas just died and the pair put the money in her coffin, hiding the bodyelsewhere in the house. With the arrival of Inspector Truscott, thethickened plot turns topsy-turvy. Playing with all the conventions ofpopular farce, Orton creates a world gone mad and examines in detailEnglish attitudes at mid-century. The play has been called a Freudiannightmare, which sports with superstitions about death - and life. Itis regularly produced in professional and amateur productions. First produced in London in 1966, Loot was hailed as "themost genuinely quick-witted, pungent and sprightly entertainment by anew, young British playwright for a decade" (Sunday Telegraph).The Student Edition offers a plot summary, full commentary, characternotes and questions for study, besides a chronology and bibliography. A student edition of Joe Orton's black farce, with full introduction, commentary and questions for study. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: VG+. 1st Edition. Inscription of owner at start of book. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. Spine slightly rubbed.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Publication of 87 pages. The wraps are a touch edge worn. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

First edition. Methuen, London. 1967. Paperback. Cover a little rubbed especially to extremities.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Slim trade paperback, illustrated wrappers, pp. [88]. A little scuffed, edgewear, bump to tail of spine and into text block. Else, clean and tight. Good+ Loot (eventually) won the queer Leicester-born playwright the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play of 1966. The paperback edition was published simultaneously with the hardback.

Condition: Très bon état. in-8, broché, couverture illustrée, 87 pp. First printing. Texte en anglais. Très bon état. Exemplaire provenant de la bibliothèque d'Alain Resnais.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Illustrated by LINDNER, RICHARD COVER ART (illustrator). quite nice CONDITION CLEAN, SOLID,BRIGHT.but has long fold to back cover. ; WHITE SPINE & COVER TITLES ON BLACK PAPER COVERS showing man in blue coat & woman in revealing costume.bright yellow background. ; Head to Toe is the saga of Gombold, First Edition Thus; 13 12 11 10 987PT LINE.

Paperback. 448p.,very good first US mass-market paperback edition in pictorial wraps Young 2927*.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG+ A very attractive copy.

1st edition / 1st printing softback with stiff wrappers Nice copy octavo 88pp., Noted theatre critic Leonard Radic's copy with his signature.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Book.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition, wrappered issue. 87pp. Perfectbound in photographic wrappers. Very good or better with reading crease along the spine and general rubbing.

Softcover. Condition: Good. First edition, wrappered issue. 87pp. Perfectbound in photographic wrappers. Good or better with creasing, stains and rubbing.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First American Edition. First Printing. A paperback original, issued as Evergreen E-470. A Fine copy in black orange and green glossy wrappers. Text and endpapers clean. Trace spotting to edges. 87pp. Q08063.

paperback. Condition: Very Good in Wrappers. No Jacket. First Edition. New York. 1968. Grove Press. 1st Printing. Very Good in Wrappers. Evergreen Paperback Original. 87 pages. paperback. E-470. Cover photo by Bert Andrews. keywords: Europe England Drama Literature Gay World Literature. DESCRIPTION - LOOT is a scathing attack on money, the police, the Catholic Church, and several other of our sacred institutions. In a front parlor, the principal object of which is a coffin, Mr. Orton has constructed a Wildean drawing-room comedy of the blackest hue. The corpse in the coffin, who is the mother of a young bank robber, is dumped upside down into a closet so that the young thief and his accomplice, an undertaker's assistant, can use the coffin as a hiding place for their stolen money. The wild adventures that occur among the thieves, a nurse who was with the dead woman at her death, the widowed husband, and a corrupt and brutal police inspector make for a vitriolic, deadly serious black comedy that makes most other drama in this genre seem genteel. 'Seethes with black, baleful mirth. Cudgels traditional morality.' - William Glover, Associated Press. JOE ORTON was born in Leicester in 1933. He left school at sixteen and two years later went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He acted briefly in repertory and held a number of varied jobs. His first play to be staged was Entertaining Mr. Sloane, which won the London Critics' 'Variety' Award as the best play of 1964. LOOT won the Evening Standard Drama Award for the best play of 1966. Mr. Orton was murdered in 1967. inventory #10480.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good / Fine. 1st Edition. A Very Good / Fine copy in the original boards. First Edition, First Issue. The Hard Back issue, which is harder to find.

Unbound. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 87pp. Pictorial wrappers. Owner name erased on front fly, wrappers lightly age-toned, else very good. A play.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Inscribed on title page, unidentified.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The First UK printing published by Methuen, London in 1967. The BOOK is in near Fine condition. Free from inscriptions and bookplates. A very small light mark to the fore edge of the front blank end-paper. A little toning to the text-block. The WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good++ or better condition. A hint of edge wear at the upper spine tip and a little rubbing to the folds. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. The author's second play which was the winner of the '1966 Evening Standard Drama Award' for the best play of 1966. Scarce. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.

First edition, casebound issue; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's black cloth, silver lettering to spine, with the unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, very slightly toned and rubbed, minor spotting to flaps, else very good. Orton's second staged play, widely regarded as a comic masterpiece. Winner of the 1966 Evening Standard Drama Award for best play.

First edition. Original black boards in photographic dustwrapper. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, with a little surface wear and a very short closed tear to the rear panel. The second play of Orton's to be staged, Loot was described at the time as "quick witted, pungent and sprightly entertainment" (Evening Standard). It was the winner of the 1966 Evening Standard Drama Award for the best play of 1966 and has since become regarded as a comic masterpiece.

Unbound. Condition: Near Fine. Film poster. Approximately 38" x 29". Old folds (very slightly misfolded), likely as issued, else fine. Film adapted from the play.

First edition. 8vo., original black cloth, spine lettered in silver, dust jacket. London, Methuen. Orton's second play to be staged, a dark and subversive farce that satirises the Catholic Church, British social attitudes towards death, and the integrity of the police.  Just a hint of faint spotting to endpapers, otherwise internally clean, jacket with minor surface wear and some light shelf wear to extremiteis, otherwise a very good copy indeed.