January 2021 Catalogue

62 Required Reading January 2021 “I Have Always Depended On The Kindness Of Strangers” 60. WILLIAMS, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire. New York, 1947 i.e., 1948. Octavo, original pink paper boards, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $6200. Click for more info First edition of William’s first Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, in scarce original dust jacket. A lovely copy. Critically praised as “superb,” “fascinating” and “a terrific adventure,” A Streetcar Named Desire brought Williams his second New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award—and a Pulitzer Prize. Williams himself considered this his best play (Devlin, 50). Contemporary newspaper clippings relating to the premiere of the play at the Barrymore Theatre, starring Marlon Brando and Jessica Tandy, laid in. Offsetting to front and rear endpapers (blank), with faint paperclip evidence; corners gently bumped, boards bright and clean. Scarce original dust jacket exceptionally bright and unfaded with a bit of wrinkling at corners and a few shallow nicks to spine ends. A lovely, near-fine copy.