Jumpers
New York: Grove Press, 1972. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Item #648 A futuristic, farcical play by Tom Stoppard (1937-2025) that poses some tough questions about moral absolutes.
The playwright "invested words with an energy and an urgency that were less purely intellectual than they were existential. Not for nothing did his 1972 play Jumpers -- about physics, metaphysics and the elusiveness of moral absolutes -- feature a supporting cast of bouncing, bending gymnasts." (Ben Brantley, The New York Times, November 29, 2025).
This hard-cover issue is the first printing of the first American edition. Soft-cover and book-club editions are relatively easy to find, but the hard-cover edition is less common.
PHYSICAL DETAILS: Octavo (8.25 x 5.5 inches; 208 x 140 mm), 91, [1] pages, in black cloth, gilt titles to spine, in an unclipped, photo-illustrated dust jacket (hard cover).
CONDITION: Light toning to pages, a bit of offsetting to end papers. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket that shows lightest of edge wear.
ISBN: 0394492749
Price: $125.00