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Tom Stoppard – The Real Inspector Hound

A2 a. UK Edition

1a. First Edition Hardback

Faber and Faber. Published May 1968. Hardback. White endpapers, 1 blank, half-title, title, [i], 39 pages numbered 9-47. Pages 199mm x 118mm. Blue cloth; down spine in gilt: ‘THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND ^. Tom Stoppard Faber’.

Dustjacket. 432mm x 210mm. Front: cream with a graphical outline of a box in blue and the title of the play in mirror image; superimposed on the graphic in black ‘The | Real | Inspector | Hound | Tom | Stoppard’ and below in blue ‘FABER PLAYS’ underlined three times. SBN 571-08541-5. Price on front flap 15s.

1b. First Edition Paperback

Faber and Faber. Published May 1968. Paperback with french wrappers. 1 blank, half-title, title, [i], 39 pages numbered 9-47. Pages 199mm x 123mm. Front: cream with a graphical outline of a box in blue and the title of the play in mirror image; superimposed on the graphic in black ‘The | Real | Inspector | Hound | Tom | Stoppard’ and below in blue ‘FABER PLAYS’ underlined three times. SBN 571-08542-3. Price on front flap 5s.

2. Proof

Faber and Faber. Paperback. 1 blank, half-title, title, [i], 39 pages numbered 9-47. Pages 198mm x 118mm. Front: pale artichoke with publication data text in black.

3. Acting Edition

Samuel French Ltd. Published October 1969. Title, [i], 68 pages numbered 1-36, [i], 3 blanks. Pages 215mm x 132mm. Front: white with a vertical dark blue patterned band down the left and the title and author in blue. ISBN 0-573-02323-9.

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Stoppard A2 a1a front cover

Stoppard A2 a1a publication data

Stoppard A2 a1b front cover

Stoppard A2 a1b publication data

Stoppard A2 a2 front cover

Stoppard A2 a3 front cover

A2 b. USA Edition

1. Book Club Edition

Grove Press. Published 1968. Hardback. White endpapers, half-title, title, [ii], 64 pages numbered 3-66. Pages 208mm x 134mm. Black boards; down spine in gilt: ‘STOPPARD The Real Inspector Hound GROVE PRESS’. No ISBN.

Dustjacket. 507mm x 210mm. Front: black with an image of a man standing on the back of another man’s body, and in green ‘The Real | Inspector Hound’, in violet ‘a play by | Tom Stoppard’ and in white ‘author of | Rosencrantz & | Guildenstern | Are Dead’. On bottom of front flap ‘Book Club Edition’.

Note 1: The February 1974 selection of The Fireside Theatre book club.

2. Evergreen Edition

Grove Press. Published June 1969. Paperback. 1 blank, half-title, title, [i], 53 pages numbered 7-59, 1 blank. Pages 202mm x 134mm. Front: black with an image of a man standing on the back of another man’s body, and in green ‘The Real | Inspector Hound’, in orange ‘a play by’, in violet ‘Tom Stoppard’ and in orange ‘author of | Rosencrantz & | Guildenstern | Are Dead’; in the lower left corner in orange ‘(logo) EVERGREEN E-489 $1.45’. No ISBN. Price on front and back covers $1.45.

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