9780957609501 - Malicious Damage: the Defaced Library Books of Kenneth Halliwell and Joe Orton di Colsell, Ilsa; Hoare, Philip; Orton Barnett, Leonie (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. A fascinating book of reminiscences about these two explosive characters and their life in Noel Road, Islington, together with a large collection of images showing their many collages, amendments to book covers, etc. Compiled with the help of the Orton Estate, and supported by Arts Council England and Islington Local History Centre. Kenneth Leith Halliwell (1926�1967) was a British actor, writer and collagist. He was the mentor, boyfriend and murderer of playwright Joe Orton. John Kingsley Orton (1933�1967), known by the pen name of Joe Orton, was an English playwright, author, and diarist.Ilsa Colsell is an artist and writer from Orkney, educated at Glasgow School of Art (1999-2003), Goldsmiths, University of London (2003-2004), and Kingston University (2017-2025), and now resident in London. Her physical and written works navigate amongst the layers of death and collage. Our book is in immaculate condition, its taupe paper-covered boards protected by a double-thick mylar jacket so that the dark blue details on front, spine and back are all clean and bright. Inside pale mauve endpapers are a slight surprise, book-ending a firmly-bound textblock with clean, bright pages and no sign of wear or use. Of particular interest is the folding monochrome image of the room in which the two men lived - the walls decorated within an inch of their lives with collages of artistic images.

Hard cover. 186 p. Audience: General/trade. Very good in very good dust jacket.

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HARDCOVER. Condizione: Used; Very Good. Used; Very Good. 41-A-01 Donlon Books, London, 2013 Hardcover. Flat signed by both Isla Colsell and Philip Hoare. Text is clean and unmarked. Book Condition; Very Good Malicious Damage is an account of one of the most intriguing events in book lore: the campaign by upstart playwrights Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell to steal hundreds of books from London libraries in the 1960s, deface them as an act of criticism (both literary and against the library system itself) and then secretly return them to the stacks for unsuspecting patrons to find. . 0. HARDCOVER.