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First edition, inscribed by the authors on the half-title verso and title page: "For Clive Hirschhorn, Willis Hall" and "Keith Waterhouse for Clive Hirschhorn". Hirschhorn (b. 1940) was the film and theatre critic for the Sunday Express for over three decades; his 1961 ownership inscription is on the front pastedown. The play was first performed in 1960 at the Cambridge Theatre, London, starring Albert Finney; a programme for the production is loosely inserted. Based on Waterhouse's 1959 novel of the same name, the play was adapted into a film in 1963, directed by John Schlesinger, in which Finney reprised the title role and Julie Christie featured as his girlfriend Liz, her breakthrough role. Octavo. Original black boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Bookseller's ticket to front pastedown. Tiny marks and bumps to boards, a couple of pages roughly cut; jacket unclipped, rubbed, spine sunned, small nicks and creases to extremities: a very good copy in very good jacket.…