Hardback

After the Fall (1965)

Identification points are listed only where two independent sources agree. Last reviewed 28 Oct 2026.

Market value

What decides the price

  • It is the first UK edition; the true first was published elsewhere.
  • The original dust jacket carries much of the price for a book of this age; its condition matters as much as the book's.
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In short

Quick answer

Who published the After the Fall 1965 hardback?
Secker & Warburg, London, in 1965, in hardback.
Identification

How to identify this edition

Miller's play opened in New York in January 1964; the first British edition came from Secker & Warburg, London, in 1965. It is a slim octavo of 128 pages in green boards, issued in a dust jacket. Some listings date Secker copies 1964, so check the title page. Do not mistake Secker's Collected Plays volume II (1981), which also includes the play, for the first. Check that the jacket is not price clipped.

Publisher's practice

How Secker & Warburg marked its first editions

  • First-impression copies of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) are bound in green cloth and are found in either a red or a green dust jacket.

Read the full guide to Secker & Warburg first editions, decade by decade, and check your copy's copyright page against it. Our number line decoder reads the printing from the row of numbers.

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Printings and states

First impression

1965

At a glance

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Who published the After the Fall 1965 hardback?

Secker & Warburg, London, in 1965, in hardback.

Sources

Where these facts come from

Points of issue are listed only where at least two independent sources agree. Last reviewed 28 October 2026. Reviewed by Harriet Ellis; read how we check facts.