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Lot 337
Sale 1023 - The Library of Jack Charles Davis, Sold to Support Charitable Institutions
May 3, 2022
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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1,500
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$2,813
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WILLIAMS, Tennessee (1911-1983). A Streetcar Named Desire. New York: New Directions, 1947.
Tall 8vo. Original pictorial lavender boards designed by Alvin Lustig (slight rubbing to spine ends); unrestored unclipped dust jacket (spine panel lightly faded, short tears and minor chipping to head of spine, a few tiny stains verso).
FIRST EDITION of Williams's second major play, a cornerstone of the modern American theatre. A Streetcar Named Desire was first performed at the Barrymore Theatre in New York on December 3, 1947 under the direction of Elia Kazan. Crandell A5.1.a.
