Joan Ure (8 results)

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. 4to. Wrappers. 500 copies printed. Joan Ure (nom de plume of Elizabeth Thomson Clark, née Carswell, 1918-1978) was best known for her work for the Scottish theatre, and her collaboration with Ian Hamilton Finlay. The only book she published in her lifetime was Two Plays (1970 - Seven Characters out of the Dream and I See Myself as This Young Girl). Alasdair Gray met Ure through Archie Hind, and is as generous about her as he is bitter about her critical predicament. "Joan's plays had few productions because she worked in Scotland where hardly any theatres use local authors. Her plays were mostly short, witty, and managements distrust new writing that is cleverer than them. They think it may be stupid . . . Since her death in 1978," he writes, "Joan's work has been unfairly neglected. I am glad to see this book of her poems." "There was this woman and she had this tiny talent. / I call it talent for things must have a name. / She had this talent that it happened to be death / to hide. She knew this empirically because, having, / the first time, tried to hide it, she / broke out in a rash. / But she was Scots and difficult to convince . . .".

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 4to. Wrappers. 500 copies printed, this copy signed on the title-page by Alasdair Gray. Joan Ure (nom de plume of Elizabeth Thomson Clark, née Carswell, 1918-1978) was best known for her work for the Scottish theatre, and her collaboration with Ian Hamilton Finlay. The only book she published in her lifetime was Two Plays (1970: Seven Characters out of the Dream and I See Myself as This Young Girl). Alasdair Gray (1934-2019) met Ure through Archie Hind, and is as generous about her as he is bitter about her critical predicament. "Joan's plays had few productions because she worked in Scotland where hardly any theatres use local authors. Her plays were mostly short, witty, and managements distrust new writing that is cleverer than them. They think it may be stupid . . . Since her death in 1978," he writes," Joan's work has been unfairly neglected. I am glad to see this book of her poems." "There was this woman and she had this tiny talent. / I call it talent for things must have a name. / She had this talent that it happened to be death / to hide. She knew this empirically because, having, / the first time, tried to hide it, she / broke out in a rash. / But she was Scots and difficult to convince . . .". Signed by Author(s).

First edition. 27 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Selected and edited by Richie McCaffery and Alistair Peebles. One of 500 copies. Gray contributes a foreword to this collection.

Brossura. Condition: new. A cura di Poggi V.Rimini, 2010; br., pp. 196, cm 12x17.(Episodi. 15). Come una ragazzina e Riprendi la tua costola!, drammi scritti da Joan Ure rispettivamente nel 1968 e 1974, affrontano i temi della condizione ed emancipazione della donna da una prospettiva sui generis. Come già Qualcosa anche per Ofelia (edito da Panozzo Editore nel 2007) questi drammi offrono il confronto, e talvolta lo scontro, tra modi diversi di rapportarsi a sé e al mondo, con la leggerezza e l'ironia che caratterizza tutta l'opera di Joan Ure. Libro.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Numbered. Book condition: VG/Fine with a couple of tiny, faint smudges to top closed page edges. Jacket: VG with creasing to top edge; a little fading; tiny nick to rear flap; light handling wear. Number 115 of an edition limited to 350. A bright copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Printing. Pp. 137. A true first edition, first print (First impression) Limited edition of 350 copies, this being 232. A near fine unread copy, in original pictorial jacket, light creasing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited Numbered First Edition. 137pp. Teal cloth cover, gilt lettering on the spine. Small prev. owner sticker on the front free endpaper.4 illustrations. Except for light foxing to the fore-edge, a near fine, unmarked book.Unclipped pictorial jacket has toning to the extremities. in mylar sleeve. Short plays by the Scottish playwright and poet. One of the founding members of the Scottish Society of Playwrights.Scarce volume. Size: Octavo. Book.