[BIBLIO-DRAMA] GREENE, Graham

The Complaisant Lover: A Comedy

New York: Viking Press, (1961). First Edition. Small octavo (19cm.). Gray cloth spine over blue paper-covered boards; dustjacket; 87pp. Board corners tapped, else a Fine copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper, price-clipped, lightly rubbed, still Very Good or better. In America, Greene's love-triangle comedy opened on Nov 1, 1961 at the Ethel Barrymore Theater, starring Sir Michael Redgrave, George Turner, and Sandy Dennis. Among the play's three main characters is "Clive Root," described in the jacket copy as "a supercilious antiquarian bookseller;" modeled upon, we suppose, any number of mid-century London rare book dealers.

Price: $50.00

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