With signed photograph and order of service for Beryl Reid.

MARCUS, Frank ~ The Killing of Sister George. A Comedy in Three Acts.

FIRST UK PRINTING. Hamish Hamilton, London: 1965.

8vo., bright blue boards lettered in silver to spine with publisher's device to foot; in the unclipped photographic dustwrapper (12s. 6d. net), featuring an image by Mark Gudgeon; THE BOOK near-fine, just faint offsetting to the endleaves; THE WRAPPER also near-fine, with a little light even shelfwear. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. First UK edition, first printing. This copy complete with both a signed photograph of Beryl Reid (who won a Tony Award for her role as Best Actress in the play), and an order of service for the funeral of Reid, which took place on Tuesday 18th February 1997. The award-winning play by Frank Marcus, which premiered at the Bristol Old Vic on 20 April 1965, starring Beryl Reid as June Buckridge (Sister George). In 1968, it was adapted into a feature film for which Reid reprised the role. The story follows a bike riding District Nurse caring for the villagers of Applehurst, and her flatmate, Alice ‘Childie’ McNaught, whose lives are turned upside down when a BBC manager and agony aunt, Mrs Mercy Croft, comes to visit.

BINDING: Hardcover
CONDITION: Near Fine
JACKET: Near Fine