H4

Tom Stoppard – Forwards!

H4 a. UK Edition

1. First Edition

Unexpected Developments / Aloes Books. Published September 1977. Paperback. Half-title, title, 124 pages numbered 5-128. Pages 208mm x 136mm. Front: white with a graphic in green of three men walking down a corridor; above in black ‘FORWARDS!’, and below in black ‘A PHANTOM CAPTAIN BOOK | conceived and edited | by | NEIL HORNICK’. ISBN 0856520292. Price on back cover £1.50.

Note 1: The entire book is a collection of forewords written by various contributors who were asked to provide a foreword for a book “without prior knowledge of its content or authorship”. Stoppard’s contribution is on page 30. One thousand copies were printed.

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