School Ties - Hardcover

SCHOOL TIES - Good and Bad at Games, Dutch Girls (First edition - first printing)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Jacket design by Liz Friedman (illustrator). First Edition. First printing of the true first edition. William Boyd's uncommon book collecting his two screenplays "Good and Bad at Games" and "Dutch Girls". ***A very good copy in black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked - just lightly rubbed at the edges. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean with virtually no foxing. Internally also very good, with a neat ownership name in ink at the top of the front free endpaper. No creases or tears, but there are a couple of abrasions to the fore-edge of the page block - not affecting the interior pages (probably caused in production when the page block was cut). Pages clean. ***In a very good colour-illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £8.95 net. The dustwrapper is complete with virtually no wear. No creases, tears or chips to the edges. There is some light foxing to the inner flaps. The colour on the spine of the dustwrapper is unusually hardly faded at all (the spine colour is often found very faded). ***223mm x 140mm. 144 pages. ***Contents: A twenty-three page introduction ("A candid memoir of his own schooldays in the British gulag archipelago") precedes the screenplays for "Good and Bad at Games" (an original script produced by Quintet Films for Channel Four in 1983) and "Dutch Girls" (an original script produced by London Weekend Television and broadcast on ITV in the autumn of 1985). ***'"Good and Bad at Games" is a UK television drama, first shown in the Film on Four strand on Channel 4 Television on 8 December 1983. The story, told partly in flashback to 1968, concerns a clique of English public schoolboys who bully and humiliate an unpopular younger pupil (Cox) who is 'bad at games'. Ten years later Cox uses the naive and equal outsider Niles, who is only included in the clique because he is 'good at games', to find out more about the lead persecutor (Mount), in order to exact revenge. "Dutch Girls" is a 1985 film, released by the London Weekend Television Company, produced by Sue Birtwistle, directed by Giles Foster, and written by William Boyd. The film is about a group of teenage boys who go to the Netherlands to play hockey. On the trip they drink, smoke, and try to have sex with girls. It features several well-known actors who were young at the time - Colin Firth, Timothy Spall, Adrian Lukis and James Wilby. (Wiki) ***A first printing of the true first edition of this collection, published in 1985, complete in the original dustwrapper, in nice collectable condition. This was William Boyd's fifth published book and his first collection of screenplays. It is a very uncommon book. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Artikel-Nr. 9470

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