The Quare Fellow. A Comedy-Drama. London: Methuen, 1956. First Edition. Pp, 87. Frontispiece portrait. Black cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket. Tippex mark on endpaper, jacket lightly frayed along edges, otherwise a good copy.

Behan’s first play set in Mountjoy Prison, Dublin.

It premièred at the Pike Theatre Club, Herbert Lane, Dublin, on 19 November 1954 to critical success and by Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop at the Theatre Royal, Stratford, London on May 24th 1956.