The Dwarfs

Harold Pinter

Published by Faber and Faber, London, 1990

About this Item

A signed limited edition of Nobel Prize winning playwright Harold Pinter's only novel. The first edition of this work, no. 131 of 150 specially bound copies, signed by Pinter himself.In the original glassine.Pinter began writing this work in the early 1950s, before adapting it into a play in 1960. He decided the novel would benefit from further work prior to publication, and began work on it again in the late 1980s, prior to its first publication in 1990.'The Dwarfs' describes the intertwined lives of four young Londoners: Len, working at the Euston train station but fascinated by abstract mathematics; Mark, an actor; and Virginia and Pete, a young couple trying to define their relationship. In the publisher's original cloth backed paper covered boards, with glassine. Externally, fine. Glassine in exceptional condition, with minor edgewear to back strip tail. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine.

Seller Inventory # 913F17

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Dwarfs
• Publisher: Faber and Faber, London
• Publication Date: 1990
• Binding: Cloth
• Illustrator: None
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: signed by author
• Book Type: book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Plays