A16

Tom Stoppard – The Invention Of Love

A16 a. UK Edition

1a. First Edition Hardback

Faber and Faber. Published October 1997. Hardback. White endpapers, 1 blank, half-title, title, [ii], 106 pages numbered 1-106, 6 blanks. Pages 197mm x 123mm. Dark cyan cloth; down spine in white: ‘(ff logo)  Tom Stoppard | The Invention of Love’.

Dustjacket. 455mm x 204mm. Front: pale yellow with at the top in pine green ‘(ff logo) PLAYS | Tom Stoppard | The Invention of Love’, and below a black and white photograph of A.E. Housman. ISBN 0-571-19273-4. Price on front flap £14.99.

1b. First Edition Paperback

Faber and Faber. Published October 1997. Paperback. 1 blank, half-title, title, [ii], 106 pages numbered 1-106, 6 blanks. Pages 197mm x 124mm. Front: pale yellow with at the top in pine green ‘(ff logo) PLAYS | Tom Stoppard | The Invention of Love’, and below a black and white photograph of A.E. Housman. ISBN 0-571-19271-8. Price on back cover £6.99.

2. Second Edition

Faber and Faber. Published 1998. Paperback. Half-title, title, [iii], 102 pages numbered 1-102. Pages 197mm x 123mm. Front: pale yellow with at the top in pine green ‘(ff logo) PLAYS | Tom Stoppard | The Invention of Love’, and below a black and white photograph of A.E. Housman. ISBN 0-571-19271-8. Price on back cover £9.99.

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A16 b. USA Edition

1. First Edition

Grove Press. Published September 1998. Paperback. Half-title, title, [iii], 102 pages numbered 1-102. Pages 208mm x 135mm. Front: marbled cerise with a photograph of a bound manuscript by A.E. Housman and a photograph of Housman superimposed; in pink at the top right ‘Tom Stoppard’, in the centre ‘The | Invention | of Love’ and at the bottom a quote from Variety. ISBN 0-8021-3581-1. Price on back cover $11.

Note 1: Although this edition includes Stoppard’s “Note to Second Edition” this was the first USA edition.

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Theatrical Performances

UK Premiere: 1st October 1997 at the Cottesloe Theatre, London; transferred to the Lyttelton Theatre, London on 22nd December 1997.
USA Premiere: 29th March 2001 at the Lyceum Theatre, New York.