Tennessee Williams Contributor (13 results)

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 161 pages. 8.25x5.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 161 pages. 8.25x5.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 318 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Later printing (per lack of a Doubleday edition/printing statement upon copyright page) INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. xxii, 600 pages. Hardcover: H 24cm x L 16cm. Dust jacket toned particularly at spine; some rubbing and soiling as well as edge-nicks and light creases; front flap is not price-clipped. Black cloth spine with vibrant gilt stamping and brown boards; slender shelf abrasions at bottom edges. Text block's top edge foxed with a few small stains; dark brown .5cm diameter stain to upper fore-edge which shallowly penetrated some margins; soiling to bottom edge. Author's thirteen-line ink inscription upon front free endpaper: "For . . . With warm personal regards - Virginia Spencer Carr." Interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding retains some crispness. With prefatory essays "A Note from the Author" and "Some Words Before" (i.e. a Foreword) by Tennessee Williams, five sections of b/w plates on unpaged leaves, Notes, Genealogies, "A Chronology of Carson Smith McCullers," Bibliography, Index, and Picture Credits. Please note that this thick book has an approximate shipping weight of 3 pounds and may require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. ISBN 0385040288.…

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Softcover. First edition; First printing. Octavo, 309 pages. In Very Good condition. Green spine with white text. Boards show minor wear on head and tail edges of spine. Signed by Nevada Barr, O'Neil De Noux, dated March 1, 2016, Julie Smith, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, and Ace Atkins on title page. [ ]. 1386256. Special Collections. …

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8pp.; 15.9 x 8.9 cm. 2 leaves folded and stapled. Published New York: New Directions, 1957 An uncommon leaflet published by New Directions in 1957 "distributed to the friends of New Directions [containing] one poem from six books of poetry published by New Directions in 1956." Contents: "On Love" and "Statement" from Poems from the Greek Anthology by Dudley Fitts. "Written on the Wall at Chang's Hermitage" from One Hundred Poems from the Chinese by Kenneth Rexroth. "Meditation" from In the Rose of Time by Robert Fitzgerald. "The American Century" from In Defense of the Earth by Kenneth Rexroth. "My Little One" from In the Winter of Cities by Tennessee Williams. From Canto 90 of Section: Rock-Drill by Ezra Pound. A very good copy, with light creasing and a little smudging to rear; staples have left marks at middle parting. Not in Gallup.…

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. First edition 1950 A Fine copy in a Near Fine Jacket, with a small chip to head of spine, lightly soiled. Signed by Williams at head of his own Foreword to the book. In a Brodart protector. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. First edition. Fine in yellow cloth with titles in blue in a very good+ dust jacket. (Spine age toned, but perfectly readable. Couple trivial chips at corner tips. ) Tennessee Williams' FIRST hardcover appearance. Also works by Jean Garrigue, Eve Merriam, John Frederick Nims, and Alejandro Carrion. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 215 pages.…

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. First edition 1951 A collection of prose pieces and poetry by a number of Tennessee Willams's contemporaries. The work is dedicated to Tennesse Williams by the editor. A Fine copy, in a Near Fine Jacket with light crumpling and nicks to top edge. Includes "The Interior of the Pocket" a 2pp prose piece by Tennessee Williams. signed and with two separate handwritten amendments to the text by the author. Rare. Signed by Author. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo; original black cloth (corners bumped), paper spine label; lacking DJ. Contains an early published play by Tennessee Williams "The Lady of Larkspur Lane," in addition to plays by Archibald Macleish, Maxwell Anderson, William Saroyan, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. Precedes an anthology of poetry published by New Directions in 1944 that is often stated to be Williams' first book appearance. This copy signed by Williams: "Tennessee" in green ink on the front flyleaf, below a curious, early 1942 inscription that reads "To Steen From Karen and Mister." This book is rarely found signed by Tennessee Williams.…

122, [6] pp. 5 pages of adverts follow text. Tall 8vo. 9-1/4" x 6-1/4" Per Crandell, "Battle of Angels, as published in 1958 with Orpheus Descending, differs from in first publication in Pharos in some 47 substantive readings, 45 of which are to stage directions. . The book publication [1958] corrects one error and deletes one line of dialogue." Slight cock. Age-toning to backstrip & edges, which have the usual bit of chipping to the yapp overhang. A VG copy. Original publisher's grey paper wrappers, printed in maroon. Yapp edges. Now protected by a custom-cut clear mylar wrapper 1st Printing (Crandell C67). ASSOCIATION copy, on the half-title page is penciled, "Compliments of J[ames] Lauglin", publisher of New Directions. …