ORTON (JOE)
Prick Up Your Ears, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'For Leonie & George - Who contributed so much to this book & to me./ With enduring affection, John/ October 18, 1978', publisher's cloth, rubbed, 8vo, Allen Lane, 1978; together with a long playing record of the 1952 Broadway revival of the Rodgers and Hart musical Pal Joey, inscribed on the sleeve to Orton by his agents at the William Morris Agency ('October 12, 1965/ Dear Joe: All the best from your U.S. agents...'); and first editions of the 3 posthumously published early works, Fred & Madge. The Visitors. Two Plays, 1998, Between Us Girls, a novel, 1998, and (with Kenneth Halliwell) The Boy Hairdresser and Lord Cucumber, 1999, publisher's cloth, dust-jackets, 8vo, Nick Hern Books (5)
Footnotes:
First edition of Prick Up Your Ears, inscribed by John Lahr to Joe Orton's sister and her husband: 'The Orton family was crucial to my research... especially Leonie Orton Barnett with her perceptive and affectionate regard for Joe...' (Acknowledgements, p. xiv).

During a trip to New York for the opening of Entertaining Mr Sloane, Orton had written to Kenneth Halliwell that he had gone in search of recordings of old musicals: 'I've not got Pal Joey or the Bells are ringing yet or the others we wanted'. It seems his American agent knew he wanted this LP, went out and bought it for him and got it signed.
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