Harold Pinter Ephemera, Chiefly from the Collection of Sir Joseph Gold, 1949-circa 1984

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Harold Pinter Ephemera, Chiefly from the Collection of Sir Joseph Gold, 1949-circa 1984

Harold Pinter Ephemera, Chiefly from the Collection of Sir Joseph Gold, 1949-circa 1984

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Sir Joseph Gold (1912-1997) was educated at Harvard and London universities and knighted in 1980. He served as a member of the International Monetary Fund from 1946 to 1960, as General Counsel and Director of the Legal Department from 1960 to 1979, and as Senior Consultant to the Fund. He collected first editions of contemporary authors, including in addition to works by Harold Pinter, significant holdings of works by Samuel Beckett, Dylan Thomas, Ezra Pound, and Ted Hughes. Harold Pinter, playwright, director, actor, poet, and political activist, was born in 1930. He has written twenty-nine plays and twenty-one screenplays and has been awarded numerous prizes for drama. Materials, the bulk of which were collected by Sir Joseph Gold, relate to playwright, director, actor, poet, and political activist Harold Pinter. Included are playbills and theatrical advertisements; movie miscellany; literary prospectuses; Gold's correspondence, 1960-1978, regarding Pinter materials, including some with Alan Clodd; and newspaper clippings concerning Pinter and performances of his plays.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Rare Book Collection