The Hostage. London: Methuen, 1958. First Edition. Pp 92. Black cloth boards, in pictorial dust jacket. Jacket worn along margins, cloth a little spotted & foxing to fore-edges, neat ownership name to endpaper.

Adapted, and extended, by the author from a one-act Irish language play ‘An Giall’ – his first major success.

First performed at the Theatre Royal London, 14th October 1958.