London: Royal Court Theatre, 1984

8vo, pp. 41. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers. Diagonal creasing to front panel, faintly replicated on first few pages, some discolouring to top corner of ffep. affecting inscription. About very good.

First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO HIS ACCOUNTANT ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER: 'for Michael Henshaw, love and best wishes from a dreadful client, love, Michael Hastings. 84'.

Tom and Viv received its premiere at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in February 1984. Directed by Max Stafford-Clark and starring Tom Wilkinson and Julie Covington, this incisive dissection of T.S.Eliot's relationship with his wife Vivienne remains Hasting's best known work.

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