"ROMANTICISM IS ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL…": TENNESSEE WILLIAMS' CAMINO REAL, 1953, SIGNED BY HIM
WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Camino Real. (New York): New Directions, (1953). Octavo, original tan cloth, original dust jacket. $1000.
First edition of Williams' most personal play, signed by him on the front free endpaper.
In a 1970 interview with David Frost, Williams called Camino Real his most personal play, "a statement of my own philosophy, a credo… that romanticism is absolutely essential. That we can't really live bearably without a good deal of it. It's very painful, but we need it" (Devlin, 142). Crandell A12.1.a.
Book near-fine with minimal wear to extremities, supplied dust jacket very good with minor rubbing and a short closed tear from the lower edge at the front flap fold.