A Better Class of Person, John Osborne — Uncorrected Proof

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A Better Class of Person, John Osborne — Uncorrected Proof

Name: A Better Class of Person, John Osborne — Uncorrected Proof
Brand: Broadhursts Books
SKU: 5562
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Publication: London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1981

Formatting: 8vo, pp. 285.

Condition Report: Very Good. The publisher's original printed wrappers remain remarkably sharp and clean, with only minor toning to the spine and light, superficial handling marks to the panels. The extremities exhibit slight rubbing and minor corner bumping, though the binding remains firm and completely intact. Internally, the text block is bright and unmarked, presenting clean, crisp pages entirely free from foxing or significant wear, barring a minuscule, almost imperceptible spot to the upper margin of the title page. A very well-preserved example of this fragile proof.

Catalogue Note: An uncorrected proof copy of John Osborne's revealing first volume of autobiography. Issued prior to the first trade edition, these advance copies were produced in limited quantities for reviewers and booksellers, bound in simple typographical wrappers.

This volume covers Osborne's life from his birth in 1929 up to 1956, concluding with the monumental debut of Look Back in Anger at the Royal Court Theatre. Proof copies of Osborne's later works, while occasionally surfacing on the open market, are decidedly scarce in such solid, well-preserved condition, making this an appealing acquisition for collectors of post-war British theatre.

In A Better Class of Person, John Osborne, the archetypal "Angry Young Man" of British theatre, turns his ferocious and unflinching gaze inward to chronicle his own formative years. Charting his life from a stifling lower-middle-class childhood in suburban London through his early, precarious struggles as an actor in provincial repertory theatre, Osborne provides a scathing, darkly comic, and deeply moving portrait of his youth. The memoir culminates in the historic 1956 premiere of Look Back in Anger—the play that irreversibly shattered the polite conventions of the English stage and defined a generation.

Book Condition: Very Good

Book Authors: John Osborne

Book Publisher: Faber and Faber Limited

Book Language: English

Narrative Type: Non-Fiction

Genre: Autobiography, Biography & Memoirs

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Signed: No

Book Pages: 285

Book Publication Year: 1981

Book Publication Date:

Book Binding: Softcover

Illustrator: N/A

Book Series: N/A

Country/region of manufacture: Fakenham, United Kingdom

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