Forty Years On. A play.. This item is unavailable.Forty Years On. A play.

First Edition (first printing) - the uncommon casebound issue. Slim 8vo. 78pp. Red cloth lettered and bordered in gold at the spine. Some rubbing to the cloth at the head of the upper and lower boards, and a former owner name neatly inked to the head of the front free endpaper. A very good copy in very slightly rubbed and dust soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a touch of creasing to the upper edge. The author's first book (bar his contributions to 'Beyond the Fringe'), and his first West End production. It features a play-within-a-play which includes a satire of T.E.Lawrence, here 'Tee Hee Lawrence', ("Clad in the magnificent white silk robes of an Arab princehe hoped to pass unnoticed through London. Alas he was mistaken").