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‎Williams Tennessee‎

‎The Eccentricities of a Nightingale and Summer and Smoke‎

‎New York: New Directions 1964. First edition. Blue cloth. Ownership signature nice copy in lighlty used dust jacket. Jacket design by Alvin Lustig. Crandell A29.1. <br/><br/> New Directions hardcover books‎

Referencia librero : 22977

‎Williams Tennessee‎

‎THE ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE AND SUMMER AND SMOKE‎

‎New York: New Directions 1964. Gilt grey cloth. First edition in book form of the first title ca. four thousand copies printed. Spine and edges a bit sunned through jacket otherwise a very good copy in price-clipped Lustig dust jacket with residue of bookshop inventory/price sticker on front flap. CRANDELL A29.1. New Directions hardcover books‎

Referencia librero : WRCLIT54530

‎WILLIAMS Tennessee‎

‎THE ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE; And Summer and Smoke‎

‎NY: New Directions 1964. First Edition. 8vo pp. 248. Very nice copy with slight sunning on spine top and bottom in little chipped price clipped dj. New Directions unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 26133

‎Williams Tennessee‎

‎The Fugitive Kind: original play title Orpheus descending‎

‎New York: Signet/New American Library 1960. Paperback. 142p. introduction by Williams cast list 8 pages of photos from the film starring Marlion Brando lightly-worn first mass-market paperback edition in pictorial wraps. Signet S1745. Signet/New American Library paperback books‎

Referencia librero : 166097

‎Williams Tennessee‎

‎The Glass Menagerie‎

‎New York: Random House 1945. First edition. Orange cloth endpaper stained from enclosure multiple pages have the upper margin marred with a paper clip otherwise a very good copy the dust jacket has some light wear and fading. There were three binding cloths used no priority is known. Williams's first book. Crandell A1.1.a. <br/><br/> Random House hardcover books‎

Referencia librero : 31514

‎Williams Tennessee‎

‎The Glass Menagerie‎

‎Random House 1945. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A fine first edition in a fine dust jacket. First Printing stated on the copyright page. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Random House hardcover books‎

Referencia librero : 1508095

‎Williams Tennessee‎

‎The Glass Menagerie‎

‎Random House 1945. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Published in New York by Random House in 1945. First Printing is stated on top of copyright page. Two clippings laid-in one about Laurrette Taylor an actress from the stage production and one a blurb with photo about Williams. Book very good darkening on front and back free end papers. DJ very good. DJ price is $2.00. Random House hardcover books‎

Referencia librero : 0104558

‎Williams Tennessee‎

‎THE GLASS MENAGERIE: A Play in Two Acts‎

‎London: John Lehman 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The first UK edition. No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the public as The Glass Menagerie. It was Williams' first popular success and launched the brilliant if somewhat controversial career of the pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944 with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda the play has been the bravura piece of great actresses from Jessica Tandy to Joanne Woodward and is studied and performed in classrooms and theatres around the world. Octavo: 95 p. Original blue cloth binding with black and gilt titles. The boards are ever so slightly bowed. The dust jacket is lightly toned along the spine and folds with some general minor shelfwear; otherwise very good. John Lehman hardcover books‎

Referencia librero : 73780

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‎THE INVENTORY AT FONTANA BELLA. In Playboy magazine March 1973‎

‎1973. WILLIAMS Tennessee. "THE INVENTORY AT FONTANA BELLA." In Playboy magazine March 1973. "The Digger's Game" by George V. Higgins. Very Good. $8.75. <br/><br/> unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 43415

‎WILLIAMS TENNESSEE‎

‎The Knightly Quest‎

‎New York: New Directions 1966. First Edition. This copy is signed by the author Tennessee Williams and belonged to fellow Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Lanford Wilson and bears Wilson’s autograph ownership signature as well as Wilson’s ownership ink stamp which reads: “Lanford Wilson - Sag Harbor N.Y.†Lanford Wilson is best known for his plays The Hot L Baltimore The Mound Builders and Talley’s Folly for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. A superb association copy by the author. Near fine in a fine bright dust jacket. New Directions unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 12252J

‎WILLIAMS TENNESSEE‎

‎The Knightly Quest‎

‎New York: New Directions 1966. First Edition. Fine fresh copy in a fine dust jacket. New Directions unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 7720J

‎WILLIAMS Tennessee‎

‎The Knightly Quest and Other Stories‎

‎New York: New Directions 1966. First. hardcover. fine/near fine. 8vo navy blue cloth d.w. New York: New Directions 1966. First Edition.<br/><br/> The dust wrapper not price-clipped is toned at the edges.<br/><br/> New Directions unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 231343

‎Williams Tennessee‎

‎The Knightly Quest.; A Novella and Four Short Stories‎

‎London: Secker & Warburg 1968. First English edition. Blue cloth fine in price-clipped dust jacket. Crandell A 30.2. <br/><br/> Secker & Warburg hardcover books‎

Referencia librero : 22981

‎WILLIAMS Tennessee‎

‎The Knightly Quest: A Novella and Other Stories‎

‎New York: New Directions 1966. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards in dust jacket; 183pp. Minor age-toning to jacket and margins of textblock top edge of boards mildly sunned. A tight clean unmarked copy. A few closed tears and nicks to top edge of dust jacket. Very Good. New Directions unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 51413

‎WILLIAMS Tennessee‎

‎The Long Stay Cut Short"; In: Perspectives USA No. 8 Summer 1954‎

‎NY: Intercultural Publications 1954. Periodical: 8vo pp. 188. Paper wraps. Cover soiled and scuffed o/w VG. Includes articles on "The Skyscraper: USA" illustrated by William Alex Samuel Eliot Morison's "The Young Man Washington" "Seven Love Poems" by Kenneth Patchen "The Auroras of Autumn" by Wallace Stevens book review by Hayden Carruth. Intercultural Publications unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 49160

‎Williams Tennessee‎

‎The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore‎

‎New Haven CT: New Directions 1964. First edition second issue with pp. 19-22 tipped in and Scene Two starting on p.21. 118pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Aquamarine cloth. Very slight rubbing along lower edge otherwise a near fine copy in near fine dust jacket with very slight wear and soiling. First edition second issue with pp. 19-22 tipped in and Scene Two starting on p.21. 118pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed. Inscribed by Williams to Bob Wilson owner of the Phoenix Book Shop on the front free endpaper. <br/><br/>Perhaps Williams' least successful play. In a 1971 interview with Rex Reed Williams recalled the writing of this play as "the most frustrating experience I've ever been through. I keep rewriting it all the time. That play reflected a preoccupation with death as did most of my work in the Sixties." Deviln Conversations with Tennessee Williams 196. New Directions unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 320839

‎Williams Tennessee‎

‎The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore‎

‎Norfolk CT: New Directions 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Second state as usual with pages 19-21 tipped in. Dust jacket design by David Ford. Green cloth; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 4 118. Cloth rubbed along the top and bottom; offsetting to front flyleaf; otherwise a nice copy signed "Tennessee" on the front flyleaf in a sloppy hand. White dust jacket priced at $3.50 protected in mylar is very lightly soiled with a couple of tiny chips at extremities; much nicer than usual for this jacket. Laid in is a very attractive folded program for the play from the Barter Theatre a production starring Claire Luce and Donald Madden. <br/><br/> New Directions hardcover books‎

Referencia librero : D15407

‎Williams Tennessee‎

‎The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore‎

‎Norfolk Connecticut: A New Directions Book 1964. First Edition Second Issue. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Green cloth; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 4 118. Spine tips and corners a little frayed; gift inscription on verso of FFEP. Dust jacket faintly rubbed; a few small spots of soiling; tiny chips at spine tips and corners; not price-clipped $3.75 in mylar. <br/><br/> A New Directions Book hardcover books‎

Referencia librero : JC8274

‎WILLIAMS TENNESSEE‎

‎The milk train doesn't stop here anymore‎

‎New York: New Directions 1964. First edition second issue; 8vo pp. 4 118; original green cloth; very slight insect damage to rear joint and upper edge of back cover else fine in fine dust-wrapper. <br/><br/> New Directions hardcover books‎

Referencia librero : 21344

‎Williams Tennessee‎

‎The Mutilated‎

‎New York: Dramatists Play Service 1967. First edition. Original green wrappers fine.Crandell A32.1.a. <br/><br/> Dramatists Play Service unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 22939

‎Williams Tennessee‎

‎The Night of the Iguana‎

‎New York: New Directions 1962. Second printing. Cloth. Near Fine/near fine. Clothbound 8vo. 128 pp. Stated second printing. A handsome near fine copy. Faint number 62 hand printed on rear flap. The dustwrapper is near fine save for a clip at top of inside front flap but with $3.50 price intact at bottom of flap. Colorful jacket design by Nicola Wood. New Directions unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 28021

‎Williams Tennessee‎

‎The Night of the Iguana‎

‎New York: New Directions 1961. Hardcover. Fair/Fair. 8vo; green cloth with black cloth spine lettered in yellow; dust jacket worn and chipped. Fireside Theatre Book Club Edition as noted on jacket. Laid into this copy is a program from the fireside Theatre's production in February 1963 starring Bette Davis Margaret Leighton and Patrick O'Neal. The play served as the basis for a memorable film 1964 directed by John Huston starring Richard Burton Ava Gardner and Deborah Kerr. This copy is from the library of Bryan Sheedy with his ownership signature dated 1963 on the front flyleaf. Additionally signed from the bottom up on the same page by Tennessee Williams. Sheedy bought and ran a guest house in the Turks and Caicos and over the years befriended literary figures Williams among them. Apparently a wide-bodied larger than life figure in the look and manner of a modern day Falstaff he was known to have a large library of inscribed literary first editions see New York Times travel piece on Sheedy from 1998. Unfortunately the Turks and Caicos is not the best place to store a collection of books and Sheedy's copies tended to be judging by the ones we have well on the "sheedy" side. This one was spared the water damage that affected some of the other books but has suffered curious little puncture wounds to the upper and lower corners of the front board. Unlikely that these are from a chained iguana such as the one that is depicted in the play; one would need to consult a herepetologist. In any case one of the more difficult titles to find signed by Tennessee Williams who was generous when it came to signing books. An interesting copy. Sold as is. <br/><br/> New Directions hardcover books‎

Referencia librero : D15376

‎Williams Tennessee‎

‎The Night of the Iguana‎

‎New York: New Directions 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Black cloth; illustrated dust jacket by Nicola Wood; 8vo; pp. 128. Boards and spine tips lightly rubbed; occasional pencilled underlining; otherwise an excellent copy of the book with ownership signature of Jerry Wald on the FFEP see below. Dust jacket a little scuffed at spine tips and corners; spine just a little tanned; pen mark on rear panel; not price-clipped VG in mylar. A nice bright copy. <br/><br/>Jerry Wald 1911-1962 received Best Picture Academy Award nominations as producer for Mildred Pierce Johnny Belinda Peyton Place and Sons and Lovers. He wrote and produced Key Largo The Glass Menagerie An Affair to Remember and The Sound and the Fury and many others. New Directions hardcover books‎

Referencia librero : D9214

‎Williams Tennessee‎

‎The Night of the Iguana‎

‎New York: Dramatists Play Service 1963. First edition. Pink wrappers slightly faded on the spine else fine. The first printing of the acting edition. Crandell A 25.3.a. <br/><br/> Dramatists Play Service unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 24333

‎Williams Tennessee‎

‎The Red Devil Battery Sign‎

‎New York: New Directions 1988. First edition. Cloth fine in dust jacket slightly tanned. Crandell A56. <br/><br/> New Directions hardcover books‎

Referencia librero : 22967