The Hostage by Brendan Behan, First Edition (38 results)

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. An essential text in the development of modern British dramaFirst staged by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop company at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London, in 1958, The Hostage is a play about a Cockney soldier held as a hostage in a Dublin lodging house in exchange for an IRA man who is to be hanged in Belfast. Civic Guards accidentally shoot him in a raid on the house. It is a witty and often profound comment on Anglo-Irish relationships and on the Irish themselves. This is Behan's best-known and most popular play and a classic of the modern stage.A magnificent entertainment which "crowds in tragedy and comedy, bitterness and love, caricature and portrayal, ribaldry and eloquence, patriotism and cynicism." (Harold Hobson, The Times) An essential text in the development of modern British drama Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Harry Webster Peggy Marshall Peter Layton etc. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Hardback 98 pp.Very Good condition No dust jacket No inscriptions.

Condition: Good. 1958. First Edition. 92 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Book has been rebound by library, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Mass market paperback. Introduced by Alan Simpson, with a Bibliography by E. H. Mikhail. Wrappers with some rubbing and light edgewear, still near fine. Includes Behan's three full-length plays plus three little-known one-act plays originally written for radio.

Condition: Fair. 1958. First Edition. 92 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Ex-Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Ring mark to front board.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. Dust jacket, edgeworn, some chipping to corners and head of spine, lightly age-toned spine, unclipped; black cloth covered boards, gilt lettering on spine, corners a touch bumped, lightly age-toned spine, no owner's mark or annotations, binding tight. ; 7.8 x 5.4 x .6; 92 pages.

Condition: Very Good. First edition copy. . Very Good dust jacket. Owner's name on rear endpage. In protective mylar cover. (irish drama, 20th century ).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 1st edition 1958 presented in an edge-worn but unclipped dust wrapper. No inscriptions. A clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. An ex-Middlesex library book with date stamps from 1961 to 1963.

FIRST EDITION small octavo hardcover (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. 1st Edition. A Very Good + Copy in a Very Good + Dust Wrapper. Not Price Clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Indeed. First Edition. First edition in Hungarian. Number 77 in the enormously important Modern Konyvtar series which introduced Hungarians to the best of post-war literature from beyond their own borders. Translation by Rona Ilona. Plain card covers with dust-wrapper pasted to book spine as issued. Very slight shelf wear but very good or better, particularly considering the poor production quality. Scarce, even in Hungary.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The jacket is slightly shelf and edge worn, with a touch of creasing near the edges. It presents well in cellophane. The spine of the book has lovely gold gilt but is a little edge worn. There are no inscriptions and the binding is excellent. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. First Ed, so stated. First Ed, so stated. Good+ in Good DJ: Book shows just a hint of wear to the extremities; the boards, however, are considerably 'sprung' due to exposure to heat; a bit of foxing at the top and bottom edges and the end papers. Binding remains quite secure; text clean. DJ shows fairly heavy wear: some loss to chipping and rubbing at extremities and several short, closed tears; rubbing to the panels; the faintest sunning at the back strip, though the titles thereon remain clearly legible; price intact; mylar-protected. Overall, remains a handsome, if flawed, book in a rather tatty DJ. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. 92pp. Hardback with DJ.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. Fifth Edition. Grove Press, 1964, 5th Printing, 16mo, 182 pages. Paperback edition in very good+ condition. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

92 S. Pappband mit Schutzumschlag. Erste Ausgabe. - Umschlag mit Knicken und Randläsuren. Gewicht (Gramm): 184.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Book is in Good condition. Cover has an ink scribble at top above title, otherwise is clean with no marks or stains, shows some general shelf wear. Binding is tight, edges are square, corners are sharp. Pages are clean with no writing or high lighting. Book appears to be unread. A Great Copy! An Awesome Buy! None.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Trade paperback. Stiff pictorial wrapps., black with white and grey letters, violet, blue lines, white illus. Backstr. black with white and grey lettering. Sl. shelfworn w. sl. rubbed edges. 92pp. FIRST EDITION THUS. The first edition specifies 4 forms: this paper ed., clothbound ed., specially bound and signed ed. lettered A-Z, 4 copies numbered 1-4. MINT COPY, UNREAD.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Ink gift inscription from Richard Wall on title page, very good condition in dust wrapper, minor marks. Inscribed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Evergreen Original edition. 92pp. Pictorial wrappers. Pages lightly age-toned, wrappers rubbed, very good.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Washington, D.C.; The Catholic University of America Press, 1987. First American Edition. Octavo (22 cm); Publisher's white and green dust jacket on teal cloth bound boards with gilt stamping to spine. Light scuffing and bumping to jacket. Board corners and spine ends softly bumped with board fore-edges bowing slightly. Pages clean. A Near Fine copy in like dust jacket. Originally written in Irish in 1958, Behan's play was translated into English to be put on stage in Sweden around the same time.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Mass market paperback. Wrappers lightly toned, tiny stains on topedge, near fine.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. An Evergreen Black Cat Book/Published by Grove Press, Inc., New York, 1964. Mass Market Paperback. Condition: near fine 1st edition stated.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Original theatre programme for a 1959 production of 'The Hostage.' 12mo. [16pp. ] Reproducing black-and-white photographs of the author and cast. Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Owner's contemporary ink date on front cover, original seal broken on page foredges, a very good copy. Prints information about the cast and the production.

Boards. Fine in lightly edgeworn d.j. with two small tears at top of back cover. First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 12mo. 92pp. Front endpapers lightly foxed, with thin brown strip on front flyleaf, else a very good copy in very good dust jacket; jacket has moderate edge wear on spine and extremities of both panels.

Hardback. 92pp Methuen & Co., London, 1958. 1st edition. The book is very good. The dust jacket has a repaired tear, otherwise VG.

Softcover. First Edition. Good in wrappers, owner name. An Evergreen original. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 12mo. 92pp. A fine copy in price-clipped, very good dust jacket; pictorial jacket is moderately rubbed on spine and extremities, with two short tears at crown of spine.