Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Williams, Tennessee. Cat On A Hot Tin Rook. New Directions Book, NY, 1955.
Price: US$9.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Illustrated & Library Rebound
Seller: Pepper's Old Books, Hanson, KY, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. New Amer Library, NY, 1955.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description:
Seller: M & M Books, ATHENS, GA, U.S.A.
Ross, Harold (editor). The New Yorker (Magazine) April 2, 1955. New Yorker Magazine, NY, 1955.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: stapled pictorial wraps; 136 clean, unmarked pages; includes items by/about: John Updike (poem); James Thurber ("A Holiday Ramble"); Robert Francis (poem); Saally Benson ("War with Connecticut"); E.J. Kahn, Jr., (Profiles: Edward Green "Ned" Harringan, Anthony "Tony" Hart PtIII--Take him along with Your)' Wolcott Gibbs (Theatre: Tennessee Williams "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"); Mollie Painter-Downes (Letter from London; Montgomery Newman ("A Clean Sweep"); Lewis Mumford (Sky Line, t II--The Roaring Traffice Boom; Architecture and Traffic); Alan Moorhead (Far-Flung Correspondents: Returning to a Legend: Australia and world War II); Winifred Williams ("A Question of Inheritance"); Peter Kane Dufault (poem); janet Flanner (Books: A question of Colette); ; Talk of the Town; Books, Art, Theater, Cinema, Food Reviews, Etc. Size: 4 vo
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. New Directions Books, New York, N.Y., USA, 1955.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, no marks, underlining, or bookplates. No remainder marks. Small bookshop sticker on inside front cover. Former owner's name neatly written on top of ffep. Spine is tight and crisp. Boards are flat and true and the corners are square."Very Good" dust jacket is not price-clipped with moderate wear, full length crease on front, corner and edge wear and chips. This collectible, " NEAR FINE" condition first edition/second printing copy is protected with a polyester archival dust jacket cover. Still, a nice collectible copy.
Seller: rarefirsts, Charlotte Hall, MD, U.S.A.
Tennessee Williams. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. New Directions, 1955.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tennessee Williams - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. New Directions (1955). First edition. Hardcover. True first printing with no reference on the copyright page to a previous appearance of the preface in the NY Times, and without Joseph Mielzinger's and Lucinda Ballard's names on p. xii. VG copy bumped at top and bottom of spine, general wear. Dust jacket is VG with light chipping and soiling. See image. Enclosed in archival quality mylar cover.
Seller: Savage Lotus Books, ATHENS, GA, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. New Directions, NY, 1955.
Price: US$292.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover, First edition. No mention of NY Times on copyright page , etc. Tan boards with black lettering on the spine. No writing or bookplates in the book. Some foxing to endpapers and page ends ; some soiling to page ends . Dustjacket is NOT price clipped ( $ 3.00 ) - Chipping to spine ends and corner folds of jacket, wrinkles are present at jacket top / bottom edges and a couple of 1/8 " slivvers of jacket are missing.
Seller: The Kings Word, Marietta, GA, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. A new Directions, 1955.
Price: US$1657.34 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A New Directions, NY, 1955. Hardcover, NO dust-jacket. First Edition. Dedication SIGNED by Tennessee Williams on a laid in signature: "To G.L. I hear you liked and I am very glad, Tennesse Williams". The HB in light-orange-cloth is perfect. NO chips or tears. The book is in excellent shape. The binding is tight and the boards are very good. The pages are clean with no writing or marks.
Seller: OPEN DOOR BOOKSHOP, Roma, RM, Italy
Price: US$6000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: ***** This is the true first edition, first printing, first issue (with no mention of The New York Times on the copyright page, and no mention of Mielzinger or Ballard on page xii). ***** This book is SIGNED and inscribed by the author (Tennessee Williams) to the American poet David Posner ("To David P / fondly / Tennessee"). We acquired this book directly from Posner in the early 1980's. ***** Signed first edition, first issue examples of this key title are very rare. ***** Very nice hardcover with dust jacket. There is NO writing, NO bookplates, and NO remainder marks. It is NOT a book club edition and NOT a former library book. The dust jacket is not price-clipped ($3.00). The dust jacket is the true first printing jacket (with no later printings mentioned at the bottom of the inside front flap). ***** CONDITION: Both the book and the dust jacket are in very nice NEAR FINE condition . ***** We include new mylar (clear) dust jacket protectors with all books at no extra charge. ***** OUR GUARANTEE TO YOU: All books are guaranteed to be as described. We believe that no sale is complete until you are happy. Any book is returnable for a full refund (including postage) if you're not 100% satisfied. Thank you! Richard Vick, Modern First Editions (Buying & Selling Modern First Editions since 1982).
Seller: Richard Vick, Modern First Editions, Coral Springs, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$7000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: ***** This is the true first edition, first printing, first issue (with no mention of The New York Times on the copyright page, and no mention of Mielzinger or Ballard on page xii). ***** This book is SIGNED by the author (Tennessee Williams) on the second page. ***** Signed first edition, first issue examples of this key title are rare. ***** Very nice hardcover with dust jacket. There is NO writing, NO bookplates, and NO remainder marks. It is NOT a book club edition and NOT a former library book. The dust jacket is not price-clipped ($3.00). ***** CONDITION: Both the book and the dust jacket are in very nice NEAR FINE condition . ***** We include new mylar (clear) dust jacket protectors with all books at no extra charge. ***** OUR GUARANTEE TO YOU: All books are guaranteed to be as described. We believe that no sale is complete until you are happy. Any book is returnable for a full refund (including postage) if you're not 100% satisfied. Thank you! Richard Vick, Modern First Editions (Buying & Selling Modern First Editions since 1982).
Seller: Richard Vick, Modern First Editions, Coral Springs, FL, U.S.A.