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CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
by Tennessee Williams
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG++-Near FINE/VG+
- Seller
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Mansonville, Quebec, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: New Directions, 1955. CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF- Tennessee Williams- New Directions- New York- 1955- 1st Edition-1st Printing-1st State without credit to the New York Times on verso of title page, and without credit to Jo Mielziner on xii- Hardcover:-8vo- VG++-Near FINE/VG+ dj is price clipped, original tan cloth is clean, tight and square- jacket design by Alvin Lustig has minor chipping at head and foot of spine, top edge and lower right corner, no tears, bright and clean, in mylar.- xiv, 1-197, complete, clean, no tears or writing- SEE PHOTOS- Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Drama Critics Award for best play of the 1954-55 season. This is the first issue. Made into a movie starring Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor, Burl Ives, Jack Carson, and Judith Anderson. The film received a host of Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor in a Leading Role (Paul Newman), Best Actress in a Leading Role (Elizabeth Taylor)- Fiction-drama-play-movie-tie-in-Americana (3589) . 1st Edition-1st Printing-1st State. Cloth. VG++-Near FINE/VG+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
Tennessee Williams was born in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi, where his grandfather was the episcopal clergyman. When his father, a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St Louis some years later, both he and his sister found it impossible to settle down to city life. He entered college during the Depression and left after a couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoe company. He stayed there for two years, spending the evening writing. He entered the University of Iowa in 1938 and completed his course, at the same time holding a large number of part-time jobs of great diversity. He received a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1940 for his play Battle of Angels , and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 and 1955. Among his many other plays Penguin have published Summer and Smoke (1948), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Camino Real (1953), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Baby Doll (1957), Orpheus Descending (1957), Something Unspoken (1958), Suddenly Last Summer (1958), Period of Adjustment (1960), The Night of the Iguana (1961), The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963), and Small Craft Warnings (1972). Tennessee Williams died in 1983 .
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Details
- Bookseller
- jakoll
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3589
- Title
- CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
- Author
- Tennessee Williams
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++-Near FINE
- Jacket Condition
- VG+
- Edition
- 1st Edition-1st Printing-1st State
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- Fiction-drama-play-movie-tie-in-Americana
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
jakoll
Payment must be received within 7 working days. Payments by cheque will be held 10 working days to clear. Full refund of purchase price only if item has been misdescribed as pertains to condition. Mailing costs non-refundable. Item must be returned in the same condition as it was originally sent out for refund conditions to apply.
About the Seller
jakoll
Biblio member since 2007
Mansonville, Quebec
About jakoll
We specialize in Modern 1st Edition, Children's books, Vintage classics, vinyl records, original movie posters, sports cards, comics, postage stamps and coins.We only sell online at this time and have been doing so for over 30 years.
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