The Hostage. London: Methuen, 1958. First Edition. Pp 92. Mild scuffing to outer edge of upper cover, otherwise a nice bright copy in pictorial dust jacket.

Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on front free endpaper: –

‘Brendan Behan, Dublin 18-viii-59.’

Behan’s best-known and most popular play and a classic of the modern stage. Adapted, and extended, by the author from a one-act Irish language play ‘An Giall’ First staged by Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop company at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London, in 1958.