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First hardback edition, first impression, signed by the author on the title page, and with a loosely inserted signed postcard, dated 10 March 2000, from Pinter's London address: "Dear Clive Hirschhorn, All the best! Harold Pinter". Hirschhorn was the film and theatre reviewer for the Sunday Express from 1966 to 1995. His pencilled ownership inscription is on the front pastedown. Accompanying this book is the programme for The Caretaker's performance at the Duchess Theatre, its second staging from 30 May 1960, following its very short debut run at the Arts Theatre. The Caretaker was Pinter's first commercial success and continues to be one of his most celebrated and performed works. It has been subject to "every possible interpretation: psychological, political, theological, ethological... it is a closely observed study of the way, in any social context, there is a constantly shifting balance of power" (ODNB). Octavo. Original black boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Ticket of K. J. Bredon's Bookshop, Brighton, to front pastedown. Faint glue residue to boards, very light foxing to top edge; rubbed jacket a little crudely price-clipped, colours bright: a very good copy in like jacket.

The Caretaker is one of Harold Pinter's most celebrated plays, known for its exploration of power dynamics and the nature of human relationships.