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Shelagh Delaney – A Taste Of Honey – First Edition 1959
£175.00
A first edition, first printing of ‘A Taste of Honey’ published by The Grove Press in 1959. A near fine book without inscriptions in a very good clipped wrapper with a small repair to a chip to the top of the front panel. Complete with the original theatre playbill
A British play by Shelagh Delaney, later adapted into a 1961 film. It follows Jo, a working-class teenager in Salford, who becomes pregnant after a brief romance with a Black sailor. Abandoned by her selfish mother, Jo finds support in her gay friend, Geoffrey. The play challenges social norms on race, gender, and sexuality, making it a landmark of British kitchen sink realism and an influential work in contemporary theatre.
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A first edition, first printing of ‘A Taste of Honey’ published by The Grove Press in 1959. A near fine book without inscriptions in a very good clipped wrapper with a small repair to a chip to the top of the front panel. Complete with the original theatre playbill
A British play by Shelagh Delaney, later adapted into a 1961 film. It follows Jo, a working-class teenager in Salford, who becomes pregnant after a brief romance with a Black sailor. Abandoned by her selfish mother, Jo finds support in her gay friend, Geoffrey. The play challenges social norms on race, gender, and sexuality, making it a landmark of British kitchen sink realism and an influential work in contemporary theatre.
