Quentin Crisp – The Naked Civil Servant – First UK Edition 1968 – SIGNED by Quentin Crisp and John Hurt
£1,500.00
A first edition, first printing. A near fine copy. Signed on the half-title: “To Tony & Jackie Partes / from / Quentin Crisp”. Additionally signed by John Hurt on the title page. In the near fine unclipped dust wrapper with slight wear to the edges and spine tips, the spine entirely unfaded.
John Hurt’s fearless and finely judged performance as Quentin Crisp in the 1975 television adaptation became one of the defining roles of his early career, bringing Crisp’s wit, vulnerability, and defiance to a wide audience with unusual honesty for British television.
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A first edition, first printing. A near fine copy. Signed on the half-title: “To Tony & Jackie Partes / from / Quentin Crisp”. Additionally signed by John Hurt on the title page. In the near fine unclipped dust wrapper with slight wear to the edges and spine tips, the spine entirely unfaded.
John Hurt’s fearless and finely judged performance as Quentin Crisp in the 1975 television adaptation became one of the defining roles of his early career, bringing Crisp’s wit, vulnerability, and defiance to a wide audience with unusual honesty for British television.
