London: W.H. Allen, 1961

8vo, pp. 47. Original white stiff paper wrappers, printed card dust jacket. A very well preserved copy in a faded dust jacket, with the stamp of the Mary Harris agency to front flap.

First edition, INSCRIBED TO THEATRICAL AGENT SARA RANDALL: ‘Michael Hastings 1962. This book belongs to Sara Randall. God help her if I find she has flogged it...’.

Michael Hastings [1938-2011] is best remembered now as a playwright: Tom and Viv, about the marriage of T.S. Eliot and Vivenne Haigh-Wood, was staged by the Royal Court in 1984 and filmed in 1994 in a version adapted by Hastings. This is his only volume of verse.

Scarce, especially inscribed.