Author: ALAN BLEASDALE
Title: Scully. A novel. (INSCRIBED)
Description: Hutchinson, London, 1975. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). First Edition (first printing) of Bleasdale's first book. A presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Dallas Cavell, lead actor in the author's first state play 'Fat Harold and the Last 26', which premièred at the Liverpool Playhouse on April Fool's Day 1975. 8vo. 215pp. Red boards lettered in silver at the spine. Top edge lightly dust soiled and with a narrow strip of tanning to the extreme upper margin of the text leaves. A very good copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper, with a touch of toning to the flaps. A slip of paper detailing the cast and crew of Bleasdale's stage debut has been pasted to the front free endpaper beneath his inscription. A splendid presentation copy of Bleasdale's first book, based on stories originally written to entertain his pupils in the secondary modern school where he taught for four years, later broadcast on BBC Radio Merseyside and the basis for later stage and television plays, and a seven-part television series. Very Good/Near Fine.

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