A3
Tom Stoppard – Enter A Free Man
A3 a. UK Edition
1a. First Edition Hardback
Faber and Faber. Published 27th January 1969. Hardback. White endpapers, 1 blank, half-title, title, [i], 77 pages numbered 9-85. Pages 200mm x 117mm. Madder cloth; down spine in gilt: ‘ENTER A FREE MAN . Tom Stoppard FABER’.
Dustjacket. 421mm x 203mm. Front: a black and white photograph of a man and woman in a scene from the play with above in black ‘TOM STOPPARD’, in blue ‘Enter’ and in black ‘a Free Man’. ISBN 0-571-08706-X. Price on front flap 21s / £1.05.
Note 1: One copy in the MW collection is price stickered for 25s / £1.25, while another copy is stickered for £1.75.
Note 2: A copy has been sighted where the last numbered page is 80 and 81-85 and the final blank are missing. It does not appear to have been tampered with and the error must have occurred during binding.
1b. First Edition Paperback
Faber and Faber. Published 27th January 1969. Paperback with french wrappers. 1 blank, half-title, title, [i], 77 pages numbered 9-85. Pages 200mm x 119mm. Front: a black and white photograph of a man and woman in a scene from the play with above in black ‘TOM STOPPARD’, in blue ‘Enter’ and in black ‘a Free Man’. ISBN 0-571-08794-9. Price on front flap 7s / £0.35.
Note 1: the paperback edition was reprinted in 1976 and 1979 but with no noted changes to the text. The front cover of the reprints uses different text fonts and a slight variation to the combinations of colours.
2. Proof
Faber and Faber. Paperback. 1 blank, half-title, title, [i], 77 pages numbered 9-85, 1 blank. Pages 199mm x 119mm. Front: peach with publication data text in black. Up spine in black ‘ENTER A FREE MAN’. No ISBN.
3. First Reprint Paperback
Faber and Faber. Published 12th February 1971. Paperback with french wrappers. 1 blank, half-title, title, [i], 77 pages numbered 9-85. Pages 198mm x 111mm. Front: White with three blue horizontal bars and in black ‘TOM | STOPPARD | Enter | a | Free | Man’. ISBN 0-571-08794-9. Price on front flap 7s / £0.35.
Note 1: Stoppard was unhappy with the photo on the original front cover and so it was dropped for the reprint.
See photos below.
A3 b. USA Edition
1. Evergreen Original Edition
Faber and Faber. Published 25th September 1972. Paperback. 1 blank, half-title, title, [ii], 77 pages numbered 9-85, [iii], 1 blank. Pages 202mm x 122mm. Front: black and white photos of Michael Hordern and Megs Jenkins from the original London production on a black background with at the top in orange ‘Enter a Free Man’, in purple ‘A Play by | Tom Stoppard’, in dark orange ‘Author of “Rosencrantz and | Guildenstern Are Dead”’, and down the right side in white ‘(logo) EVERGREEN ORIGINAL E-586 $2.95’. ISBN 0-394-17779-7. Price on front and back covers $1.65.
2. Acting Edition
Samuel French Inc. Published 1970. Paperback. Title, [i], 93 pages numbered 5-83. Pages 183mm x 125mm. Front: pale blue with text in black. No SBN. Price on front cover $1.50
See photos below.
Theatrical Performances
UK Previews: 11th to 16th March 1968 at the Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham.
UK Premiere: 28th March 1968 at the St Martin’s Theatre, London.
USA Premiere: 17th December 1974 at St Clement’s Church, New York.
