Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices

London: J.M. Dent, (1956).

Price: $4,500.00

Hardcover. Eighth impression. Slightly cocked, else near fine in very good dust jacket. Originally commissioned as a BBC radio play. This copy Inscribed by Harold Pinter (using his stage name, David Baron) to his first wife, the actress Vivien Merchant, apparently near the two month anniversary of their marriage: "To Vivien, Nov. 56. Almost two months! David." Merchant went on to play the part of Mrs. Pugh in the 1972 film version of the play directed by Andrew Sinclair, along with a cast that also featured Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O'Toole, Glynis Johns, and Siân Phillips.

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Item #276758 Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices. Dylan THOMAS, Harold Pinter.

Dylan Thomas
birth name: Dylan Marlais Thomas
born: 10/27/1914
died: 11/9/1953

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Welsh poet and prose writer whose work is known for comic exuberance, rhapsodic lilt, and pathos. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

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