Sweet Bird of Youth by Tennessee Williams - March, 1962

New York: The New American Library/Signet, March, 1962. FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION, FIRST PRINTING STATED. NEAR FINE. MGM. About TENNESSEE WILLIAMS' blockbuster play, SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH, Walter Kerr of the New York Herald Tribune wrote, "This is the noise of passion, of creative energy, of exploration and adventure." Published just days after the release of the MGM movie starring Paul Newman and Geraldine Page, this Signet paperback of SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH, brought to you by HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER, is FIRST THUS, FIRST PRINTING STATED. 4 1/4" x7", 124 pages. Both copies are overall NEAR FINE. Pages (all page edges are red in color) = NEAR FINE: moderate tanning, else clear, very sharp and very tight, with no markings. Cover (red glossy stiff paper, with photo front of Geraldine Page and Paul Newman in bed, particulars in white, black and yellow) = NEAR FINE: light rubbing, hints of beginning creases, else clear, colorful, tight, sharp, square.