Tennessee Williams BETWEEN THE COVERS

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1 Tennessee Williams BETWEEN THE COVERS

2 BETWEEN THE COVERS RARE BOOKS, INC. 112 Nicholson Road (856) Gloucester City, NJ Fax (856) Tennessee Williams A selection from our shelves The books in this list can be found on our website by searching for Tennessee Williams in the Author or Title Search field on the right side of our banner. You can also view these books individually by typing in each book s BTC Product ID into the search field of Advanced Search page. Each book s BTC Product ID is the number shown in this catalogue at the end of each book s description and before its price. For example, the BTC Product ID for the first book in this list is Also please note that full color illustrations of every item in our inventory can be viewed on our website. Terms of Sale All books are First Editions unless otherwise noted. All books are returnable within ten days if returned in the same condition as sent. Books may be reserved by telephone, fax, or . Payment should accompany order if you are unknown to us. Customers known to us will be invoiced with payment due in 30 days. Payment schedule may be adjusted for larger purchases. Institutions will be billed to meet their requirements. We accept VISA, MASTERCARD, AMERICAN EXPRESS and DISCOVER. N.J. residents please add 7% sales tax. Please include $5.00 postage for the first item, $2.00 for each item thereafter. Overseas orders will be sent airmail at cost (unless other arrangements are requested). All items are insured. All items subject to prior sale. Members ABAA, ILAB Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.

3 (WILLIAMS, Tennessee) poem in. Counterpoint: A Poetic Vanguard. St. Louis: Le Gros Volume one, number one. Small stamp to the first page, else fine in near fine stapled wrappers with a scuff to the front wrap and another small stamp. The magazine prints a poem by the young Thomas Lanier Williams (better known as Tennessee Williams), and marks one of Williams's earliest print appearances, preceding *Pharos* by 12 years. # $800 (WILLIAMS, Tennessee, Jane Eberle, Frederick Scribner, and others). Story (September-October 1939). New York: Story A magazine, September-October 1939 edition. Near fine in wrappers. A collection of works by Tennessee Williams, Jane Eberle, Frederick Scribner, Jesse Stuart, Dorothy McCleary, Prudencio de Pereda, J. W. Palmer, Edde Tarjan, Roderick Lull, Whit Burnett. # $85 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other One Act Plays. Norfolk: New Directions (1945). First edition. Very good in very good dustwrapper with some small tears and small internal repairs. # $285 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, and Other One-Act Plays. Norfolk: New Directions (1945). Later edition. Near fine with lightly soiled boards. Lacking the dustwrapper. # $20

4 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie. New York: Random House (1945). First edition. Fine in near very good dustwrapper with chipping along the bottom of the front panel. Author's first regularly published play. Williams also wrote the screenplay for the 1950 Irving Rapper film featuring Jane Wyman and Kirk Douglas. # $500 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie. New York: Random House (1945). First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with very small chips at the spine ends. Author's first regularly published play. Williams also wrote the screenplay for the 1950 Irving Rapper film featuring Jane Wyman and Kirk Douglas. # $1,750 (Theater) WILLIAMS, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie. New York: Random House (1945). Fourth edition. Very good with owner's name on front fly, glue stains inside covers # $16

5 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire. New York: New Directions Second printing. Ownership signature of a minor actress on the front fly, spine perished, and binding a bit loose, a worn, fair only copy without dustwrapper. This copies sole saving grace is that it is Signed by Jessica Tandy, who played Blanche DuBois in the original cast, at an early date. Pulitzer Prize-winning drama highspot, basis for innumerable revivals and an explosive Elia Kazan film featuring Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Karl Malden, and Kim Hunter. Ironically, Brando, in his signature performance, was the only one of the quartet who didn't win an Oscar. # $300 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire [jacket title: A Street Car Named Desire]. New York: New Directions First edition. Owner name on the front fly neatly marked over, bottom of the boards a little rubbed, still about fine in a bright, near fine dustwrapper with slight (but less than usual) fading to the spine, and a little offsetting and a small stain on the rear panel. Pulitzer Prize-winning drama highspot, basis for innumerable revivals and an explosive Elia Kazan film featuring Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Karl Malden, and Kim Hunter. Ironically, Brando, in his signature performance, was the only one of the quartet who didn't win an Oscar. A lovely copy. # $5,500 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. A Street Car Named Desire. NY: New Directions Reprint edition. Very good in very good dustwrapper. Book rubbed at spine ends and on corners. Dustwrapper chipped at spine ends. # $65

6 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Summer and Smoke. (New York): New Directions Books (1948). First edition. Fine in near fine, first issue dustwrapper with a bit of toning to the white spine lettering and a little rubbing. Jacket art by Lustig. # $350 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie. London: John Lehmann (1948). First English edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper. Author's first regularly published play. Williams also wrote the screenplay for the 1950 Irving Rapper film featuring Jane Wyman and Kirk Douglas. A very nice copy. # $350 New Directions in Prose and Poetry 11. New York: James Laughlin/New Directions (1949). First edition. Near fine in a very good dustwrapper with the bottom two inches of the spine missing, three short tears along the top edge of the front panel. Includes work from Paul Bowles, Stephen Spender, Henry Miller, Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams, Tennessee Williams, others. # $40 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other One-Act Plays. London: John Lehmann (1949). First English edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Scarce in this condition. # $200

7 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire. London: John Lehmann (1949). First English edition. Fine in price-clipped, very good or better dustwrapper with a small chip at the foot, and a couple of small tears. Pulitzer Prize-winning drama highspot, basis for innumerable revivals and an explosive Elia Kazan film featuring Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Karl Malden, and Kim Hunter. Ironically, Brando, in his signature performance, was the only one of the quartet who didn't win an Oscar. # $400 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie. (New York: New Directions 1949). First New Classics edition. Slightly cocked else fine. Lacking the dustwrapper. # $22 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie: A Play. (New York): The New Classics/New Directions (1949). Reprint. Fine in very good price-clipped dustwrapper with small loss to spine and bottom edges. # $20 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone. (New York): New Directions (1950). First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with some tiny nicks. # $125

8 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. The Rose Tattoo. (New York): New Directions (1950). First edition. Tiny stains on the boards else near fine in very good dustwrapper with some tape shadows on the rear panel from an old repair. Signed by the author. A hit play and basis for the 1955 Daniel Mann film featuring Anna Magnani in an Oscar-winning role, as a widow wooed by truck driver Burt Lancaster. # $2,500 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. The Rose Tattoo. (New York): New Directions (1950). First edition. Fine in very good dustwrapper with several tiny chips at the top of the front panel. A hit play and basis for the 1955 film featuring Anna Magnani in an Oscarwinning role, as a widow wooed by truck driver Burt Lancaster. # $350 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. The Rose Tattoo. (New York): New Directions Book (1950). First edition. Pink cloth boards with title on spine. Very good with owner's name on front fly, spine ends and corners lightly worn, lacking the dustwrapper. # $50 BARNETT, Lincoln. Writing on Life: Sixteen Close-Ups. New York: William Sloane (1951). First edition. Fine in good only dustwrapper with edges chipped and two inch piece on spine tail detached. Fred Astaire, Adele Astaire, Eisenhower, General Giraud, George C. Marshall, Ernie Pyle, Mr. Piper of Cub-Haven, Giesler the Lawyer, Bing Crosby, The Happiest Couple in Hollywood, Ingrid of Lorraine, Tennessee Williams, Lidsay & Crouse, Richard Rogers, Josh Logan, Oppenheimer. # $30

9 (CAPOTE, Truman, Anthology) (CAPOTE, Truman). BRICKELL, Herschel, selected and edited by. Prize Stories of 1946: The O. Henry Awards. Garden City: Doubleday First edition. Boards a little rubbed and sunned, very good in very good or better price-clipped dustwrapper with some shallow chips near the crown and some subtle fading at the spine. A good year for short stories with contributions by Truman Capote, John Berryman (his second published story), Kay Boyle, Patricia Highsmith (her first story to be published in a national magazine), Andrew Lytle, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Eudora Welty, and others. Includes Capote's first book appearance, the story "Miriam," Signed by Capote at the first page of his story. Additionally, this copy is Inscribed by him to Jordan Massie: "for my dear Jordan, who has always been so kind to me. I hope by this time another year we can be together, Truman." Massie was a writer and cousin of Carson McCullers who seems to have exercised a great influence on a number of young writers including McCullers, Capote, and Tennessee Williams. Massie's father was the basis for the character Big Daddy in Tennessee Williams's *Cat on a Hot Tin Roof*. Capote met Massie in 1946 at McCullers's house in Nyack. An interesting and early association. # $3,000 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. The Rose Tattoo. New York: Dramatists Play Service Inc. (1951). Early issue. Pamphlet. Some rust from the staples, minor rubbing to the front wrap, else a near fine copy in wrappers. A play in three acts. # $25

10 New World Writing. New York: New American Library of World Literature (1952). First edition. First volume of a series of volumes highlighting writing from around the world. Very good in wrappers. Authors include Isherwood, Auchincloss, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Merton, Shelby Foote, Gore Vidal, Wirght Morris, others. # $15 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays. Norfolk CT: New Directions (1953). Third edition, with the addition of two additional plays. Small stains on the bottom of the front board, else very good plus in very good plus dustwrapper with a couple of very small chips. # $85 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire. New York: Dramatists Play Service (1953). Revised edition. Ownership signature and bookseller's label on the front wrap, underlining on some pages, else about near fine in stapled wrappers. # $20 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Camino Real. (Norfolk, Connecticut): New Directions (1953). First edition. One corner bumped, else fine in near fine dustwrapper. # $300

11 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Camino Real. (Norfolk, Connecticut): New Directions (1953). First edition. Spotting to the foredge, else near fine in very good dustwrapper with a modest hole at the rear spine fold and some edgewear. Slip of paper laid in Inscribed by the author: "To Bob, Tenn Williams." # $450 MAXWELL, Gilbert. Go Looking: Poems Boston: Bruce Humphries (1954). First edition. Foreword by Tennessee Williams. Fine in slightly soiled, near fine dustwrapper with a small scrape on the front panel. # $50 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Hard Candy. A Book of Stories. (New York): New Directions (1954). First edition, first printing. Tall octavo. Slight offsetting on front fly, near fine in a bit worn slipcase. *Crandall A13.1.a.* # $75 BANFIELD, Raffaello de and Tennessee Williams. Lord Byron's Love Letter: Opera in One Act. New York: Ricordi First edition. Fine in stapled wrappers. Libretto and forward by Tennesee Williams. # $150

12 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. New York: New Directions First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with very light wear. Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a dying Southern patriarch and the machinations of his greedy, would-be heirs. The original theatrical performance, directed by Elia Kazan, featured Ben Gazzara, Burl Ives, Barbara Bel Geddes, Pat Hingle, and blues greats Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee. It was successfully translated into film featuring Ives, Elizabeth Taylor, and Paul Newman. The black, thin paper jacket tends to wear inordinately; this is a lovely copy. # $1,500 (WILLIAMS, Tennessee and Kenneth Rexroth). Perspectives/ Number Eleven. London: Hamish Hamilton Limited (1955). First edition. Near fine in lightly tanned wrappers. # $25 INGE, William. The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. New York: Random House (1958). First edition. Introduction by Tennessee Williams. Light wear at the extremities else near fine in a very good dustwrapper with light wear at the spine ends and light scuffing on the panels. # $35 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Orpheus Descending with Battle of Angels. New York: New Directions First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with slight age-toning on the front panel. A very nice copy. # $200

13 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Suddenly Last Summer. (NY): New Directions (1958). First edition. Fine in a very good dustwrapper that is a little tanned on the spine and extremities and starting to split along the spine. An attractive copy of this important Williams oneact play. Basis for the film featuring Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Mercedes McCambridge, and Montgomery Clift, and later re-made for television with Maggie Smith, Rob Lowe, and Natasha Richardson. # $300 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Suddenly Last Summer. (New York): New Directions (1958). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. An important Williams one-act play. Basis for the film featuring Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Mercedes McCambridge and Montgomery Clift, and later re-made for television with Maggie Smith, Rob Lowe and Natasha Richardson. A beautiful copy. # $400 (Anthology) GAVER, Jack, edited by. Critics' Choice: New York Drama Critics' Circle Prize Plays. London: Arco Publications (1959). Second edition. Some of copyright information neatly crossed out, else fine in near fine, lightly soiled dustwrapper with some light wear to the ends of the spine and edges of the panels. Contributors include John Patrick, Carson McCullers, Maxwell Anderson, Tennessee Williams, Lillian Hellman, William Saroyan, Arthur Miller, Sidney Kingsley, and John Steinbeck. # $45 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Hard Candy: A Book of Stories. (NY): New Directions (1959). First trade edition. Fine in near fine, lightly soiled dustjacket with very light wear to the extremities. # $150

14 (Anthology) ABELS, Cyrilly and Margarita Smith, edited by. 40 Best Stories from Mademoiselle. New York : Harper and Brothers First edition, presentation issue. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with light staining to the back panel, in a very good slipcase. Fifteen of the stories are by previously unpublished short story authors. Includes works by Marcel Ayme, Flannery O'Connor, James Baldwin, Paul Bowles, Ray Bradbury, Albert Camus, Truman Capote, Joyce Cary, William Faulkner, Ionesco, Shirley Jackson and Tennessee Williams. Warmly Inscribed by Mademoiselle fiction editor Betsy Talbot Blackwell. # $125 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Period of Adjustment. (New York): New Directions (1960). First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with two tiny nicks. Laid in is a chiropractor's business card Inscribed on the verso by Williams: "To Stanley, good luck, Tenn. Williams." Presumably not inscribed to Stanley Kowalski. # $350 WILLIAMS, Adjustment. Tennessee. Period of New York: New Directions (1960). Second printing. Very good in a very good, soiled, dustwrapper. # $30

15 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Suddenly Last Summer. (NY): Signet / N.A.L. (1960). First Signet, and first movie tie-in edition. Pages a little browned, and some creasing on the front wrap else near fine in wrappers. Wrappers illustrated with stills of Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, and Montgomery Clift. # $10 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Three Players of a Summer Game and Other Stories. London: Secker & Warburg First edition. No equivalent American edition. Fine in a lightly soiled, near fine dustwrapper. Author's first collection of short stories to be published in England. Uncommon. # $275 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Sweet Bird of Youth. London: Secker and Warburg (1961). First English edition. Fine in a slightly spine faded, near fine dustwrapper with a couple of tears on the front panel. Williams's powerful, sordid drama, filmed in 1962 with Geraldine Page as the aging actress and Paul Newman as her young gigolo whose past catches up with him. Remade for television in 1989 with Elizabeth Taylor and Treat Williams. # $85

16 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. The Night of the Iguana. New York: Signet (1961). Seventh printing. Near fine in wrappers. # $15 Tennessee Williams in Time Magazine, March 9, : Time Magazine Six page article, "The Angel of the Odd," about Williams. Some light rubbing and wear to the wrappers, else near fine. # $50 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. American Blues. New York: Dramatists Play Service, Inc First edition, first printing, with Williams' first name misspelled on the front cover "Tennesse." Fine in blue printed wrappers with very slight sunning at the extremities. *Crandell A6.I.a.* # $350 WILLIAMS, Edwina Dakin. Remember Me to Tom. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons First edition. Near fine with lightly soiled endpapers, in a very good dustwrapper. Tennessee Williams mother's story of her son and the forces that shaped his life and work. # $35

17 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. The Night of the Iguana: A Play. London: Secker & Warburg (1963). First British edition. Near fine with miniscule water stain on top rear cover edges in very good minus dustwrapper with water stain on spine and rear panel. # $45 (Anthology) MAILER, Norman, Tennessee Williams, William Saroyan, Katherine Anne Porter, Truman Capote, Erskine Caldwell, James T. Farrell, Luigi Pirnadello, et al. The Modern Short Story in the Making. New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc. (1964). First edition. Edited by Whit and Hallie Burnett. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a small tear and moderate tanning to the spine. Short stories, with additional original commentary and criticism, by Norman Mailer, Tennessee Williams, William Saroyan, Katherine Anne Porter, Truman Capote, Erskine Caldwell, James T. Farrell, Luigi Pirnadello, Whit Burnett, Mary O'Hara, Kay Boyle, Kressmann Taylor, Lord Dunsany, Howard Nemerov, Hallie Burnett, Jesse Stuart, Gladys Schmitt, Dorothy McLeary, George Hitchcock, Guido D'Agostino, John Knowles, and George Sumner Albee. # $35 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. In the Winter of Cities. (Norfolk): New Directions (1964). First edition. Fine in wrappers. # $20

18 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Sucre D'Orge [Hard Candy]. Paris: Robert Laffont (1964). First French edition. Near fine in wrappers with a small tear at the foot. # $40 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore. London: Secker and Warburg (1964). First English edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper but for a single internally repaired tear on the rear panel. # $150 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore. (New York): New Directions First edition, first issue with pages integral, one of approximately 50 copies issued thus. Fine in fine dustwrapper. This issue was suppressed. # $850 MAXWELL, Gilbert. Tennessee Williams and Friends. Cleveland: The World Publishing Company (1965). First edition. Light soiling on the rear board else fine in near fine, price-clipped, lightly agetoned dustwrapper. # $30

19 ROBERTS, Peter, edited by. Plays and Players: May 1965, Volume 12, Number 8. New York: Hansom Books First edition. Quarto, stapled wrappers, 50pp. Near fine with some pages age-toned. Featuring: Tennessee Williams Night of the Iguana. # $20 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. The Knightly Quest: A Novella and Four Short Stories. (New York): New Directions (1965). First edition. Faint offsetting on front fly, else fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy. # $75 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. The Knightly Quest. New York: New Directions (1966). First edition. Fine in very good or better dustwrapper with a two inch closed tear on the rear panel and a pen stroke on the front panel. A novella and four short stories. # $50 WELLS, Joel. Grim Fairy Tales For Adults. New York: The Macmillan Company (1967). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Illustrated by Marilyn Fitschen. Introduction by Norman Mailer with stories James Joyce, J.D. Salinger, Tennessee Williams, Evelyn Waugh, Saul Bellow, John Updike, Ian Fleming, Graham Greene and more. # $50

20 (Anthology) LAUGHLIN, James, edited by. New Directions In Prose and Poetry 20. (NY): New Directions (1968). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. Contributors include Thomas Merton, Denise Levertov, Alan Burns,Ian Hamilton Finlay, Manuel Bandeira, Mary Feldhaus-Weber, Jonathan Greene,Charles Guenther, Allen Katzman, Frederick Nicklaus, Steven Osterlund, James Purdy, Kenneth Rexroth, Tennessee Williams and James Purdy. # $20 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Baby Doll: The Script for the Film, Something Unspoken, Suddenly Last Summer: Penguin Plays: Three Plays. (England): Penguin Books (1968). Reprint. Mass market paperback. Near fine with light agetoning. Three plays in one book. # $20 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Kingdom of Earth: The Seven Descents of Myrtle. New York: New Directions First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $45 STEEN, Mike. A Look at Tennessee Williams. New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc. (1969). First edition. Illustrated. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with minor rubbing and soiling. # $12

21 (Anthology) HALPERN, Daniel, editor. Antaeus. Edited by Daniel Halpern. I, Summer Tangier, Morocco: Antaeus The first issue of this important literary magazine. Covers a little dust-soiled, else fine copy, in wrappers. One of 1000 copies printed. With contributions by John Berryman, Janes Bowles, Paul Bowles, Lawrence Durrell, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Fowles, Thom Gunn, W. S. Merwin, Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, among others. # $75 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Dragon Country. New York: New Directions (1970). First edition. Light bumps at the top corners else fine in a fine dustwrapper. A book of short plays. # $40 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Dragon Country. New York: New Directions (1970). First paperback edition, printed simultaneously as the hard cover. Wrappers a bit cocked, else fine. # $35

22 (WILLIAMS, Tennessee). [Memorial Broadside]: Marion Black Vaccaro 17 January April 1970 (To whom ORPHEUS DESCENDING was dedicated)... (No place): (No publisher) One quarto sheet. 8 ½" x 11". Fine. Features a photo of Vaccaro with her close friend Tennessee Williams, and the lyrics to the Jack Lawrence-written, and Bobby Daren-record song *Beyond the Sea.* Vaccaro and Williams were close friends and drinking companions. # $150 (Anthology) BYRNE, Evelyn B. and Otto M. Penzler, editors. Attacks of Taste. New York: Gotham Book Mart First edition. Fine in very good original unprinted dustwrapper with foxing on the rear panel. One of 500 numbered copies Signed by the editors. Nice anthology about what authors read in their youth, with contributions by W.H. Auden, Paul Bowles, Malcolm Cowley, Robert Creeley, Lawrence Durrell, R. Buckminster Fuller, Allen Ginsberg, Christopher Isherwood, Rockwell Kent, Jack Kerouac, Henry Miller, Marianne Moore, Anaïs Nin, Sean O'Faolain, William Saroyan, J.R.R. Tolkien, Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, and many others. # $85 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Small Craft Warnings. (New York): New Directions (1972). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A play greatly expanded from a shorter play published in the collection *Dragon Country* and produced off-broadway. An as new copy. # $150

23 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Eight Mortal Ladies Possessed: A Book of Stories. (New York): New Directions (1974). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $35 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Eight Mortal Ladies Possessed: A Book of Stories. (New York): New Directions Books (1974). First edition, wrappered issue. Fine with some minor offsetting on the rear wrapper. # $18 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. (New York): New Directions (1975). First revised edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A complete revision of the third act for the American Shakespeare Theatre production, and uncommon. # $100 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Moise and the World of Reason. New York: Simon and Schuster (1975). First edition. Near fine in near fine dustwrapper. # $20

24 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Moise and the World of Reason. New York: Bantam Books (1976). Reissue. Fine, lightly soiled in wrappers. # $10 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Tennessee Williams: Four Plays: Summer and Smoke, Orpheus Descending, Suddenly Last Summer, Period of Adjustment. New York: Signet Books (1976). First edition. Fine, lightly worn in wrappers. # $15 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Tennessee Williams' Letters to Donald Windham Verona: (Sandy Campbell) First edition. Edited and with comments by Donald Windham. Large octavo. Fine in illustrated wrappers and fine unprinted acetate dustwrapper and lightly rubbed slipcase. One of 500 copies printed by the Stamperia Valdonega. # $100 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Tennessee Williams' Letters to Donald Windham edited and with comments by Donald Windham. Verona: (Mardersteig) First edition. Fine in wrappers, unprinted dustwrapper and slipcase as issued. Of a total edition of 526 copies this is one of 26 lettered copies Signed by both Williams and Windham. This series of 26 copies was the only signed issue of the book. Obviously, an extremely scarce issue of this handsomely printed volume, and an important and revealing archive. # $3,500

25 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Androgyne, Mon Amour. New York: New Directions (1977). First edition. Very fine in very fine dustwrapper. Author's second collection of poetry. # $50 YACOWAR, Maurice. Tennessee Williams and Film. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Company (1977). First edition. Near fine with minor bumping to the corners. # $20 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Where I Live: Selected Essays. (New York): New Directions (1978). First edition. Edited by Christine R. Day and Bob Woods. Introduction by Christine R. Day. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by Tennessee Williams. # $450 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Where I Live: Selected Essays. (New York): New Directions (1978). First edition. Edited by Christine R. Day and Bob Woods. Introduction by Christine R. Day. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $100

26 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Where I Live: Selected Essays. (New York): New Directions (1978). Later printing. Edited by Christine R. Day and Bob Woods, with an introduction by Christine R. Day. Fine, lightly soiled in wrappers. # $12 (BOWLES, Paul). CHOUKRI, Mohamed. Santa Tennessee Williams in Tangier. Barbara: Cadmus Editions First edition. Translated from the Arabic by Paul Bowles. Foreword by Gavin Lambert. Note by Tennessee Williams. 12mo. Fine in wrappers with tipped-on illustration and fine tissue dustwrapper. Copy letter C of 26 lettered copies Signed by Choukri and Bowles. # $500 CHOUKRI, Mohamed. Tennessee Williams in Tangier. Santa Barbara: Cadmus Editions First edition in the first state of the wrappers. Translated from the Arabic by Paul Bowles. Foreword by Gavin Lambert. Note by Tennessee Williams. 12mo. Fine in wrappers with tipped-on illustration. One of 200 copies signed by Choukri & Bowles, approximately 70 copies released with the first state wrappers. *Miller A34a.* # $300 CHOUKRI, Mohamed. Tennessee Williams in Tangier. Santa Barbara: Cadmus Editions First edition in the second state of the wrappers. Translated from the Arabic by Paul Bowles. Foreword by Gavin Lambert. Note by Tennessee Williams. 12mo. Wrappers with tipped-on illustration. One of 200 copies signed by Choukri & Bowles. *Miller A34a.* # $125

27 (BOWLES, Paul, translator) CHOUKRI, Mohmed. Tennessee Williams in Tangier. Santa Barbara: Cadmus Editions Uncorrected Proof. Unprinted wrappers with applied label and stamped "Advance Review Copy." Fine. # $75 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Vieux Carre. New York: New Directions First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear. Signed by the author. # $700 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Vieux Carre. New York: New Directions (1979). First edition, hardcover issue. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a very tiny tear. A beautiful copy. # $500 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Vieux Carre. New York: New Directions (1979). First edition, wrappered issue. Fine in wrappers. # $35

28 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur. (Norfolk): New Directions (1980). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. # $450 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur. (New York): New Directions (1980). First paperback edition. Fine in wrappers. # $20 (WILLIAMS, Tennessee and Donald Windham). Tennessee Williams' Letters to Donald Windham, (Middlesex): Penguin Books (1980). Later edition. Edited with comments by Donald Windham. Fine in glossy wrappers. # $10 (WILLIAMS, Tennessee and Edmund Williams). Aphrodisiac: Fiction from New York: Coward, *Christopher Street*. McCann & Geoghegan (1980). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $20

29 WILLIAMS, Dakin and MEAD, Shepherd. Tennessee Williams: An Intimate Biography. New York: Arbor House (1983). First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper. Biography cowritten by the author's brother. # $20 WILLIAMS, Dakin and Shepherd Mead. Tennessee Williams: An Intimate, Unauthorized Biography. New York: Arbor House (1983). Uncorrected proof. Dakin was the brother of Tennessee Williams. Faint offsetting to the half-title else fine in wrappers. # $25 WEST, Rebecca, Stephen Spender, Tennessee Williams, Elizabeth Bishop, Bernard Malamud, William Goyen, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Nadine Gordimer, James Merrill, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carlos Fuentes, John Gardner. Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews. Sixth Series. New York: The Viking Press (1984). First Edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Edited by George Plimpton. Introduction by Frank Kermode. # $45 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. The Remarkable Rooming-House of Mme. Le Monde. New York: Albondocani Press First edition. Fine in marbled self-wrappers. Prospectus for the book laid in. Copy letter E of 26 lettered copies. Scarce. # $500

30 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. The Remarkable Rooming-House of Mme. Le Monde. New York: Albondocani Press First edition. Fine in marbled self-wrappers. Prospectus for the book laid in. One of 150 numbered copies. Scarce. # $125 SPOTO, Donald. The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams. Boston: Little, Brown and Company (1985). First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with tiny tears at the foot. # $25 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Collected Stories. (New York): New Directions (1985). First edition. Introduction by Gore Vidal. Fine in slightly agetoned, else fine dustwrapper. # $45 WINDHAM, Donald. As if...a Personal View of Tennessee Williams. Verona: (No Publisher) First edition. Number 41 of 50 copies. Signed by the author. Illustrated. Fine in wrappers in a slipcase. # $175

31 RASKY, Harry. Tennessee Williams: A Portrait in Laughter and Lamentation. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company (1986). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Advance Review copy with slip laid in. # $30 SHAPARD, Robert and James THOMAS edited by. Sudden Fiction: American Salt Lake City, Utah: Short-Short Stories. Peregrine Smith Books (1986). First edition.with a frontisstory by Robert Coover. Little bumps at the spine ends else fine in a fine dustwrapper. Contributors include Grace Paley, Donald Barthelme, John Cheever, John Updike, Charles Baxter, Peter Taylor, Langston Hughes, Raymond Carver, Ray Bradbury, Tennessee Williams, Joyce Carol Oates, Ernest Hemingway, others. # $45 SHAPARD, Robert and James THOMAS edited by. Sudden Fiction: American Salt Lake City, Utah: Short-Short Stories. Peregrine Smith Books (1986). Uncorrected proof. With a frontisstory by Robert Coover. Bumped on the front wrap else fine. Contributors include Grace Paley, Donald Barthelme, John Cheever, John Updike, Charles Baxter, Peter Taylor, Langston Hughes, Raymond Carver, Ray Bradbury, Tennessee Williams, Joyce Carol Oates, Ernest Hemingway, others. From the Library of Bruce Kahn. # $40 (WILLIAMS, Tennessee). Tennessee Williams in Key West: The Fourth Annual Key West Literary Seminar & Festival UPDATE. Key West: Update flyer for the January 9-12, 1986 seminar. Creased along folds, else fine. Signed by Kim Hunter, originator of the Stella Kowalski role. # $50

32 DEVLIN, Albert J., edited by. Conversations with Tennessee Williams. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi (1987). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $60 (Memoir/Literature) WINDHAM, Donald. Lost Friendships: A Memoir of Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, and Others. NY: William Morrow and Company First edition. Very good NO dustwrapper, 1993 written in pen on front pastedown, Spine lean, some light fading on top of back panel and on spine. # $10 WINDHAM, Donald. Lost Friendships: A Memoir of Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, and Others. New York: William Morrow (1987). Uncorrected proof. Printed wrappers. Fine. # $75 BELLAVANCE-JOHNSON, Marsha (Tennessee Williams). Tennessee Williams in Key West and Miami: A Guide. Ketchum: The Computer Lab (1989). First edition. Illustrated by Allison Gosney. Fine in stapled wrappers. # $40

33 SMITH, Bruce. Costly Performances Tennessee Williams: The Last Stage. New York: Paragon House (1990). First edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. # $20 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Five O'Clock Angel: Letters of Tennessee Williams to Maria St. Just New York: Alfred A. Knopf First edition. Commentary by Maria St. Just, with a preface by Elia Kazan. Fine in fine dustwrapper with light bumping to the extremities. # $40 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Letters of Tennessee Williams to Maria St. Just: Five O'Clock Angel. New York: Alfred A. Knopf Uncorrected proof. Fine in wrappers with copies of pictures stapled to the front wrapper that will be published in the book. Letters from Williams to his closest friend, the woman who was the inspiration for Maggie in *Cat on a Hot Tin Roof*. # $25

34 BROWN, Dennis. Shoptalk: Conversations about Theater and Film with Twelve Writers, One Producer and Tennessee Williams' Mother. New York: Newmarket Press (1992). First edition. Foreword by Kevin Kline. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Contributions by Edward Albee, Horton Foote, Frank D. Gilroy, William Goldman, William Inge, Alan Jay Lerner, Mary Mercier, David Merrick, Jason Miller, John Patrick, Richard Wilbur, Edwina Dakin Williams, Tennessee Williams, Lanford Wilson. # $20 KENNEDY, Richard S., editor. Literary New Orleans: Essays and Meditations. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press (1992). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Includes chapters devoted to George Washington Cable, Grace King, Lafcadio Hearn, Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, Walker Percy, and Tennessee Williams. As new at published price. # $20 (Anthology) MILLER, John and Kirsten, edited by. Florida Stories. San Francisco: Chronicle Books (1994). Advance Excerpt. Fine in stapled wrappers. Contributors include Elmore Leonard, Cabeza de Vaca, Tennessee Williams, Damon Runyan, Joan Didion, John MacDonald, Zora Neale Hurston, Ernest Hemingway, and John Sayles. This is not the book. It is an excerpt from the book printed for promotional purposes. # $20

35 LEVERICH, Lyle (Tennessee Williams). Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc. (1995). Uncorrected proof. Fine in wrappers. # $25 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Something Cloudy, Something Clear. (New York): New Directions (1995). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $20 (WILLIAMS, Tennessee). Tennessee Williams' Letters to Donald Windham, Athens: The University of Georgia Press (1996). First edition. Edited with comments by Donald Windham. Fine in wrappers. # $25 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. The Notebook of Trigorin: A Free Adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Sea Gull. (New York): New Directions (1997). First edition. Based on a translation from the Russian by Ann Dunnigan; edited with an introduction by Allean Hale. Fine in glossy wrappers. # $25

36 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Not About Nightingales. (New York): New Directions (1998). First edition. Foreword by Vanessa Redgrave. Fine in glossy wrappers. # $28 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Spring Storm. New York: New Directions Uncorrected proof. Fine in wrappers. # $30 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie. (New York): New Directions (1999). Reissue. Introduction by Robert Bray. Fine in wrappers. # $40 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Stairs to the Roof: A Prayer for the Wild of Heart That Are Kept in Cages. (New York): New Directions (2000). First edition. # $28 Fine in glossy wrappers.

37 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Fugitive Kind. (New York): New Directions (2001). First edition. Fine in glossy wrappers. # $30 ROESSEL, David and MOSCHOVAKIS, Nicholas edited by. The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams. New York, New York: New Directions (2002). First edition. Fine in like dustwrapper. # $35 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire. (New York: New Directions Books 2004). Reissue. Introduction by Arthur Miller. Fine, like new copy in glossy wrappers. # $18

38 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Candles to the Sun: A Play in Ten Scenes. (New York): New Directions (2004). First edition. Edited with an introduction by Dan Isaac. Foreword by William Jay Smith. Fine in glossy wrappers. # $28 (WILLIAMS, Tennessee). The Staff of Quill and Brush, Inc.. Bibliography, First Edition and Price Guide (APG - Author's Price Guide Series). Dickerson, MD: Quill & Brush (current) edition. 24 page bibliography and price-guide. A thorough guide to identifying and collecting first editions, advance copies, limited editions, etc. The AUTHOR PRICE GUIDES (APGs) include a facsimile of the author's signature; a brief biographical sketch; an up-to-date list of the author's first editions (American and British) with entries for limited and trade editions; number of copies printed (if available); how to identify the first edition; and estimated values. You can view the <a href=" com/private/article_images/instructionsforuse.pdf" target="_blank">instructions For Use</a>, also included with your order, which shows a sample listing and complete instructions for identifying first editions of the author's works.<br><br><b>the APGs are offered here AS PDF FILES.</b> Once your order has been processed, your files will be delivered to you via (no shipping charges apply). You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader (<a href=" com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html" target="_blank">download a free copy</a>) to view or print your files.<!-- <br><br>you can view illustrated examples of most of Williams's first editions in our <a href=" com/btc/reference_library/author/ ">reference Library</a>. While there, be sure to look in the <i>reference Info - Images</i> section for additional illustrations of limited editions and authentic inscriptions for many of his books. --> # $18

39 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Memoirs. (New York: New Directions Books 2006). First edition. Introduction by John Waters. Fine in wrappers. # $50

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