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Tennessee Williams' s The Glass Menagerie
by Bloom, Harold (editor)
New York: Chelsea House, 2007. Octavo, 178 pages. A compilation of essays on Tennessee Williams and The Glass Menagerie, Williams's first popular success. From the Bloom's Modern Critical Views series on famous writers and their works, this one being an "updated edition" of the book on The Glass Menagerie. Hardcover, issued without a dust jacket. Fine.
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£24.42
FUGITIVE KIND
by WILLIAMS, Tennessee
(New York): New Directions, (2001). First Edition. softcover. Fine. Pictorial wraps. A paperback original, not published in hardcover. Edited with an introduction by Allean Hale.
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£10.17
Millennial Essays on Tennessee Williams
by Voss, Ralph F. (ed.)
Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Essays on the influence of popular culture on Tennessee Williams (and vice versa); his relationship to Hollywood; his struggles with censorship and depictions of gender and sexuality, etc. Octavo, 251 pages. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. An attractive copy.
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£20.35
Memoirs
by Williams, Tennessee
London: W.H.Allen & Co. 1976. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 264 pages. Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III was an American playwright and author of many stage classics. Along with Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller he is considered among the three foremost playwrights in 20th century American drama. Robust,...
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£13.04
AT LIBERTY
by Williams, Tennessee
[n.p.] New York: [n.d.] 1941: Audrey Wood, 1941. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Unsigned Playscript. Williams, Tennessee. AT LIBERTY. [n.p.] New York: [n.d.] 1941. 8vo., 10 pp. rectos only. First Edition of this one act playscript, carbon original with one pencil correction - the story of a once successful actress who retreats to her childhood home in Mississippi, with fantasies of resuscitating her career. A fine copy in printed punch bound blue stiff wrappers of the Liebling-Wood...
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£2,238.22
THE ANGEL IN THE ALCOVE
by Williams, Tennessee
[n.p.] New York: [n.d.] 1943: Audrey Wood, 1943. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Unsigned Playscript. Williams, Tennessee. THE ANGEL IN THE ALCOVE. [n.p.] New York: [n.d.] 1943. 8vo., 13 pp. rectos only. First Edition. Original carbon typescript short story [basis for Vieux Carré], punch bound blue stiff wrappers of the Liebling-Wood Agency, 551 Fifth Ave. New York. A fine House File Copy. [Audrey Wood was Williams' literary agent. From 1939 Wood helped guide & focus Williams'...
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£2,930.04
KINGDOM OF EARTH. (THE SEVEN DESCENTS OF MYRTLE)
by Williams, Tennessee
New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1975. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. First Edition. Small 8vo. 87 pp. Fronticepiece a photograph of Estelle Parsons and Harry Guardino in a scene from the Broadway play. Fine in light blue wrappers as issued. Williams' conceived the idea for this play, one of his few comedies, on a trip to Mexico during the summer of 1940 for actress Maureen Stapleton. Produced in New York in 1967 by David Merrick and directed by Jose Quinte. A fine, very bright,...
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£36.63
Summer And Smoke
by Williams, Tennessee
NY Signet Pub. 1961.. First Paperback Edition . Paperback. The play illus. w. 11 stills from the movie. fragile. Small scratch on frnt. wrap. browning to pgs. owner sig.Vg. Laid in is a 16pg. showbill program for the film version of the play. Includes bios. and is illustrated with a still from the movie on the front cover. Light wear. Vg.
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£16.28£13.02
BATTLE OF ANGELS
by Williams, Tennessee
Murray, Utah: Pharos Numbers 1 & 2, 1945. First Edition. Soft cover. First Edition. Soft cover. Williams, Tennessee. BATTLE OF ANGELS. Murray, Utah: Pharos Numbers 1 & 2, 1945. First edition. 8vo., 123pp. A double number of this periodical devoted to Williams, in scarlet printed medium grey wrappers with yapped edges. The author's first separately published work, an early version of "Orpheus Descending". "Published in Murray, Utah, as a little magazine and distributed by New Directions, this was the...
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£325.56
ANDROGYNE, MON AMOUR
by Williams, Tennrssee
New York: New Direction, 1977. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Trade Edition of Williams second book of poetry. 8vo., pp. 93. Aquamarine cloth. Title stamped in silver on the spine. The pictorial dustwrapper is a reproduction of one of Williams' paintings. The last poem, 'Tangier': The Speechless Summer' , is dedicated to Paul and Jane Bowles. A fine fresh copy.
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£30.52
Two Screenplays: La Terra Trema, Senso
by Visconti, Luchino
NY The Orion Press 1970.. 1st Printing . Cloth with Dustjacket. The screenplays for two of Visconti's great films. Although not credited with the screenplay in this book, both Tennessee Williams & Paul Bowles worked on it, and receive credit in the film & various others books. 40 stills. Small price label stain to pastedown, price clipped. Fine/fine
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£20.35£16.28
Androgyne, Mon Amour
by Williams, Tennessee
New York: New Directions, 1977. First Edition . Cloth with Dustjacket. SIGNED BY TENNESSEE WILLIAMS. His 2nd collection of poems. Dustjacket is illustrated with a painting by Williams. Invitation to a publication party laid in. Fine/fine
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£406.95£325.56
You Touched Me!
by Williams, Tennessee & Windham, Donald & Clift, Montgomery
New York: Samuel French, 1947. 1st Paper Edition . Paper. Sharp looking 1st printing of the paper edition of the play "You Touched Me!. Based on a short story by D.H. Lawrence. Laid in the book is a nice hand written 8 line note from Donald Windham, dated Jan 1978. The verso of the card is illustrated with one of Windham's mildly homoerotic postcard collages. Also laid in the book is a card for a production of the play in 1958 presented by the Equity Library Theatre in NYC. Also included is a...
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£203.48£162.78
Tennessee Williams: A Casebook
by Gross, Robert F. (editor)
New York: Routledge, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Twelve essays on Tennessee Williams's career, with a look at not only his most famous plays but also his lesser-known works. Octavo, 214 pages, hard cover, issued without a dust jacket. A surprisingly scarce volume.
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£81.39
STAIRS TO THE ROOF. A PRAYER FOR THE WILD OF HEART THAT ARE KEPT IN CAGES
by WILLIAMS, Tennessee
(New York): New Directions, (2000). First Edition. softcover. Fine. Pictorial wraps. A paperback original, not published in hardcover. Edited with an introduction by Allean Hale.
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£10.17
Baby Doll Pressbook
by Williams, Tennessee
Hollywood: Warner Bros., 1956. 1st Edition . Pressbook. Very nice 24pg. pressbook for Elia Kazan's film "Baby Doll" that had a screenplay by Tennessee Williams. The film was met with tremdous controversy including a public comdenation from New York City's Cardinal Spellman. The film was favorably reviewed and received Oscar nominations for Carroll Baker & Mildred Dunnock's performances and William's screenplay. Memorable also for the great photo of Baker in a baby crib...
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£142.43£113.95
THE KNIGHTLY QUEST. A Novella and Four Short Stories. Signed
by Williams, Tennessee
Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Williams, Tennessee. THE KNIGHTLY QUEST. A Novella and Four Short Stories. Signed. New York: New Directions, 1966. First Edition. A fine fresh example in like dustwrapper signed by Tennessee Williams on the front free endpaper. Excellent copy.
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£305.21
Something Cloudy, Something Clear
by Williams, Tennessee
New York: New Directions, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 85 pages. Fine in Fine dust jacket with very light rubbing.
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£20.35
27 Wagons Full of Cotton & Other One-act Plays
by Williams, Tennessee
Conn.: New Directions, 1945. First Edition . Cloth with Dustjacket. The true first edition of eleven short plays by the great playwright including 27 Wagons Full Of Cotton which was later adapted by Williams into his original screenplay "Baby Doll." Also includes the very short play "This Property Is Condemned" which was made into a poorly received film in 1966 with Natalie Wood & Robert Redford in the leads & a screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola. Some shallow chipping to the...
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SAND
by Williams, Tennessee
[n.p.] New York: [n.d.] 1936: Audrey Wood, 1936. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Unsigned Playscript. Williams, Tennessee. SAND. [n.p.] New York: [n.d.] 1936. 8vo., 8 pp. rectos only. First Edition of this carbon original typrescript short story about "Old Mr. & Mrs. Kramer"*, first submitted to STORY magazine. Punch bound blue stiff printed wrappers of the Liebling-Wood Agency, 551 Fifth Ave. New York. House File Copy. [Audrey Wood was Williams' literary agent. From 1939 Wood helped...
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£2,238.22
The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, Vol. II, 1945-1957
by Devlin, Albert J. and Tischler, Nancy M. (editors)
New York: New Directions, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. These letters are from Tennessee Williams's greatest period, which included such plays as A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Octavo, 662 pages, hardcover. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy.
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£24.42
The Traveling Companion and Other Plays: Tennessee Williams
by Saddik, Annette J. (editor)
New York: New Directions, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Twelve late plays by Tennessee Williams. Octavo, 311 pages, paperback. Fine.
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£12.21
The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, Vol. II, 1945-1957
by Devlin, Albert J. and Tischler, Nancy M. (editors)
New York: New Directions, 2004. These letters are from Tennessee Williams's greatest period, which included such plays as A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Octavo, 662 pages, paperback. Near Fine with a five-inch crease to last 10 pages or so.
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£16.28
The Remarkable Rooming-House of Mme. Le Monde: A Play
by Williams, Tennessee
New York: Albondocani Press, 1984. First Edition. A previously unpublished one-act play that takes place in London. This is #128 of 150 numbered copies. Hand-sewn red marbled paper wrappers with white label on front printed in black. Publisher's one-page prospectus laid in. Fine. SCARCE. A gorgeous production featuring Swedish marble wrappers by William Ferguson and Nancy King of Worcester, Massachusetts.
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£142.43
Tennessee: Cry of the Heart
by RADER, Dotson
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1985. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Illustrated. Fine in slightly age-toned else fine dustwrapper.
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£24.42
