THE LANDSCAPE OF IDEAS

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Inscribed presentation copy. Publisher's original grey cloth boards with gilt to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with 45 black and white photographs and an additional four line drawings in the text. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout, and without previous owners' marks. Complete with the original pictorial dustwrapper, lightly toned to the upper edge, and very lightly rubbed. Not price-clipped (£4.00 net to the front flap).

Inscribed by the author in black ink on the front endpaper "To Frank Pike / Patrick Nuttgens / May 1972". The recipient is Frank Pike, editor at Faber, who over four decades, from the 1960s, onwards was responsible for the Faber drama list, recruiting Tom Stoppard, Simon Gray, Brian Friel, Sam Shepard, and Alan Bennett, among others, as well as working closely with authors already publishing with the firm, notably Samuel Beckett. Patrick Nuttgens (1930-2004) was an educator, architect, and pundit, and played a crucial role in the formation of the new York University in the 1960s, taking on the position as Professor of Architecture in 1968. The following year, he became the first director of Leeds Polytechnic (later renamed to Leeds Metropolitan University).