A beautiful copy

Stoppard, Tom ~ Indian Ink : Signed By The Author

Faber and Faber, London : 1995

The First UK printing published by Faber and Faber, London in 1995. 8vo., dark blue publisher's boards, lettered in cream to spine with publisher's device; together in the bright pink wrapper featuring a photograph by Roy Lewis; The BOOK is in Fine condition ; The WRAPPER is in Fine unfaded condition. A beautiful copy. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. The book has been signed by the author (without dedication) to the title page. Based on his earlier 1991 radio play 'In the Native State', 'Indian Ink' was first performed at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford, and subsequently opened at the Aldwych Theatre, London, on February 27, 1995. The plot follows protagonist Flora Crewe, a young poet who travels to India in the 1930s for her health. There, she has her portrait painted by a local artist, Nirad, and passes away shortly afterwards. Stoppard then shifts the time period to almost fifty years later, when two men visit Flora's sister in London - a would-be biographer, Eldon Pike, who she sends on a wild goose chase through India, and the artist's son, Anish, who learns more about Flora's relationship with his father. Covering a pinnacle period of Indian history, the play received mix reviews, but Indian theatre critic Gopal Gandhi nonetheless wrote in The Independent that it had "bitter-sweet topping to enjoy, for the sadness it evoked, for the regrets it reminded me of". An exceptionally clean and bright example. (Warner A15 a).

BINDING: Hardcover
CONDITION: Fine
JACKET: Fine