The Sixties Catalogue

73 J u l y 2 0 2 0 “A Vibrant Eloquence” 71. WILLIAMS, Tennessee. The Night of the Iguana. New York, 1962. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $1400. Click for more info First edition of Williams’ timeless drama, written “at the top of his form” (New York Times). Tennessee Williams described his award-winning The Night of the Iguana as “a play whose theme, as closely as I can put it, is how to live beyond despair and still live” (Devlin, Conversations , 80). Book fine, bright dust jacket near-fine with a couple spots of foxing, very small rub to spine, and faint evidence of label removal to back panel. A lovely copy. “Let’s go down and swim in that liquid moonlight.”