Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Williams, Tennessee. 21 Wagons Full of Cotton. New Directions (1945) Norfolk, CT, 1945.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Description: Good plus or better, light general wear, corners bumped hardbound Worn, soiled, edgetorn jacket. Pages browned. Thursday, October 27, 2005 3:16:24 PM
Seller: Prairie Archives, Springfield, IL, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS TENNESSEE. 27 WAGONS FULL OF COTTON. NEW DIRECTIONS 1945, 1945.
Price: US$16.59 + shipping
Description: HB GREY CLOTH COVERS RUBBED ABOUT VERY GOOD PP207 8V0 Eleven one act plays
Seller: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, Australia
Williams, Tennessee. 27 Wagons Full of Cotton: And Other One-Act Plays. New Directions, Conn., 1945.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boards and spine age-toned and soiled. Previous owner's name sticker on FFEP.Otherwise a clean and unmarked copy in very good condition. 207 pages.
Seller: Yes Books, portland, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Second printing with new Introduction by the author. Near fine with lightly soiled boards. Lacking the dustwrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$24.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 207pp., yellow boards, black cloth spine with gilt stamping, very light scuffing to covers,otherwise clean and Very Good.
Seller: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. 27 WAGONS FULL OF COTTON. New Directions, Norfolk, CT, 1945.
Price: US$34.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small open tears and light chipping to DJ; Eleven one act plays from the author of A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie; 8vo; 207 pages
Seller: Complete Traveller Antiquarian Bookstore, Westport, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second edition with new Introduction by the author. Owner's signature in neat ink on the front endpaper. Very good in publishers' cloth, with fading to the gilt lettering on the spine, and a tear to the lower corner of the front board; lacking dustwrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second edition with a new Introduction by the author. Very good with light soiling on the boards, in a near very good dustwrapper with heavy chipping along the edges of the front panel and spine ends.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First printing of second edition, with the essay, "Something Wild" added. Light toning to end papers, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with a few short closed tears/creasing and chipping to corners and bottom back cover, else fine.
Seller: Idler Fine Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$42.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 207 Pp. Beige Cloth. First Printing, 1945, Without The Introduction. Pencil Notes By Actrss Norma Ransom. Lightly Used, Cloth With Some Browning And Small Fray On Top Board Edge Near Spiine.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Tennessee Williams. 27 Wagons Full of Cotton. New Directions, 1945.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Printing.
Seller: Brooklyn Rare Books, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$47.50 + shipping
Description: Hardcover with dustjacket. Second edition. Black cloth spine on bright yellow textured boards, clean and sharp. Protected, unclipped, dustjacket is clean and bright, nicks and chips to edges. Book is firm in binding, a previous owner's name is penned to front endpaper, crisp interior. Includes the plays 'The Purification', 'The Lady of Larkspur Lotion', 'The Last of My Solid Gold Watches', 'Portrait of Madonna', 'Auto-Da-Fe', and 'The Strangest Kind of Romance', among others. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 207 pages
Seller: KULTURAs books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Near fine in very good dustwrapper with a few small nicks and tiny tears to the jacket edges and corners.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second edition (with "Something Wild" intro). Very Good in a Very Good Minus dust jacket. Gift-inscription (Dec. 25, 1949) on FEP. DJ with short tears and small chips, plus top 1/2" missing near head of spine. Price on jacket flap obscured by an Xmas stamp.
Seller: Brazos Bend Books, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: The 1945 1st edition. Tight and VG+ in its linen cloth. Octavo, 207 pgs. Housed in a custom-made, quarter-morocco box.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.66 + shipping
Description: in-8, cartonnage sous jaquette illustrée, 207 pp. Edition originale en premier tirage. Texte en anglais. Petit manque en pied de la jaquette, sinon en bonne condition. Exemplaire provenant de la bibliothèque d'Alain Resnais.
Seller: Librairie Vignes Online, Paris, France
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: This copy is a second state of the first edition. There is very little corner bumping or edge wear. The book has been water damaged however. Obvious spill marks on bottom edges of both covers and unclipped DJ. Hinges and gutters are solid, some early foxing and the water damage has caused discoloration bottom edges of endpapers near spine. Binding is solid but there is some forward cocking due to improper shelf storage. Unclipped DJ has wrinkling from the water and light edge chipping, no missing material. Interior text is quite good with no ownership or other markings. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. 27 WAGONS FULL OF COTTON. New Directions, Norfolk, Connecticut, 1945.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing, hardcover. Tan cloth with black lettering on the spine. 207 pages. Mylar cover on jacket.Very good with spine ends lightly pushed and edges lightly toned, in a fair dust jacket with wear to edges, 1/2" chip missing from top edge of front panel, light rubbing to folds, small puncture to spine, and surface paper loss across top of front panel and two smaller surface paper losses to front panel. NOT price-clipped.
Seller: Ziebarth Books, Coal Valley, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$76.61 + shipping
Description: 207 pp. Original cloth with dust jacket. First Edition. - Uncut. Fine copy. Unclipped jacket with only light wear. Gewicht (Gramm): 332
Seller: Müller & Gräff e.K., Stuttgart, Germany
Williams, Tennessee. 27 Wagons Full of Cotton. New Directions, Norfolk, Conn., 1945.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first American edition, published by New Directions in 1945. In tan dust jacket priced at $3.50. A near fine example of the book with a prior owner's bookplate. Dust jacket very good with some wear to the edges, chips at spine ends and an additional fingernail sized chip to lower edge or rear panel.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: New edition (Second Edition), with 'something Wild" added. 207 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Crandell A.2.1.a Original black cloth spine and yellow boards. Fine in very fine unclipped pictorial dust jacket with price opf $3.50 New edition (Second Edition), with 'something Wild" added.
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. 27 WAGONS FULL OF COTTON. New Directions, Norfolk, Connecticut, 1945.
Price: US$137.44 + shipping
Description: Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. A few small chips and tears to jacket. ; 1 x 8.3 x 5.9 Inches.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$149.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tan cloth first edition hardcover. Spine ends softened/bumped, edges lightly toned, slight foxing to gutters. Sound and unmarked. The DJ in mylar is chipped, slightly creased, with some small holes/splits to gutter. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$160.25 + shipping
Description: First Edition. 8vo. 207 pp. Beige cloth boards with black lettering to the spine, slightly rubbed and stained. Contents well-thumbed with page edges browned. In the scarce dust-jacket, which is chipped and creased with a small section missing from the back panel. INSCRIBED ON THE FEP: "TO EDITH CAPON, GOOD LUCK & THANKS, TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, LONDON, OCTOBER 1951".
Seller: Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB), LONDON, United Kingdom
Price: US$185.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 11 plays. No Intro. Grey cloth boards. Mild sunning along top edges. Spine ends mildly bumped. Pages lightly toned.Pp. 182 and 183 have light offset toning from a 4" x 2" piece of paper no longer present. PO card pasted on inside front paste down. Signature of Spencer Draffan ffep in blue pencil with following handwritten explanation in pencil: "Spencer Draffan, adopted into the Black family, was the owner of the Bookshop in Mansfield, Ohio. He was gay." Dust jacket, in protective cover has rubbing to edges, chipped bottom spine end, 1/2" loss to top spine end, and chipped top back corner.
Seller: onourshelves, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition: [6], 207 pp.; 22 cm. Near fine in publishers' cream linen boards, spine lettering in brown, "Tennessee Williams' One-Act Plays," corners very gently bumped, in a very good tan dustwrapper with a one-inch tear and crease to the upper edge of the front panel and some rubbing to the back panel.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. One of 2949 copies. 20-7pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Crandell A.2.1.a Original beige Cloth. Fine in slightly chipped dust jacket
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$285.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Very good in very good dustwrapper with some small tears and small internal repairs.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Bookplate on front fly, else about fine in handsome near fine dustwrapper with some foxing inside the jacket and a tiny nick at the crown.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. 27 Wagons Full of Cotton & Other One-act Plays. New Directions, Conn., 1945.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: The true first edition of eleven short plays by the great playwright including 27 Wagons Full Of Cotton which was later adapted by Williams into his original screenplay "Baby Doll." Also includes the very short play "This Property Is Condemned" which was made into a poorly received film in 1966 with Natalie Wood & Robert Redford in the leads & a screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola. Some shallow chipping to the back panel of the dustjacket also minute chipping to the top edge of the front panel, and the spine panel. Small bump to the top corner of the cloth. The insides are fine. Uncommon in the first printing.
Seller: Ira Joel Haber - Cinemage Books, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the first blank. About Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket lightly rubbed, with short closed tears on the heel and flap folds, repaired with cello tape on the verso.
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.