TERENCE RATTIGAN. — French Without Tears. A Play in Three Acts.

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 150pp. Green cloth lettered and ruled in black at the spine. Some not inconsiderable discolouration to the cloth at the upper and lower boards. Former owner details inked to the head of the front pastedown (and entirely obscured by the wrapper flap). A very good copy in lightly dust soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with several small areas of taped repair, and several short nicks with accompanying creasing. Laid-in is the seventeen-page illustrated stapled playbill for the Piccadilly Theatre production. The author's first solo play (several years earlier he penned the play 'First Episode' in collaboration with Philip Heimann), which ran for over 1,000 performances in London, and established lead actor Rex Harrison as a major star. Uncommon, and much more so in this casebound state (there was also an equivalent edition issued in wrappers)., Very Good, Good