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Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Original wrappers, wrappers a bit browned, and with some minor edge wear. Inscribed by the publisher James Laughlin to book designer Harry Ford. Crandell C67.
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.
Tennessee Williams. Battle of Angels. Pharos, 1945.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition of Williams' first book and first produced play, signed by the author to the half-title. First premiering in 1940, Battle of Angels was published as a double issue of Pharos Magazine: Numbers 1 & 2, Spring 1945 (comprising the whole issue). Williams would later rewrite the play into Orpheus Descending. Murray, Utah: Pharos, Spring 1945. Original wraps, pp. 123, [5]; housed in a custom clamshell case. The fragile wraps are worn with loss to the overlapping edges and foot of spine, light soil and toning, trace of a bookplate or similar to the half-title and title, slipcase a bit rubbed. Scarce.
Seller: Kevin Sell, The Rare Book Sleuth, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee.. Battle of Angels.. Pharos, Murray, Utah, 1945.
Price: US$975.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pharos Numbers 1 & 2, Spring 1945. A Very Good copy in light grey wrappers, as issued. Light wear (tiny chips) to yapped edges of wrappers, mild offsetting to prelims, a half dozen wax spots to front and rear covers. Binding sound. 123pp. with "A History of the Play" by Williams, and a note by Margaret Webster. This copy SIGNED by Williams (no inscription) at the top of the title page. Q13293
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Battle of Angels. Pharos Numbers 1 & 2, Murray, Utah, 1945.
Price: US$3250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Small chips and tears at the edges of the yapped wrappers, age-toning at the edges, a short tear on the title page, about near fine, housed in a cloth chemise and red quarter morocco slipcase. The author's first separately published work, a play. Inscribed by Williams to his close friend Paul Bigelow: "To my dear friend Paul with very best wishes, Tennessee Williams." Bigelow assisted in the Broadway production of Williams' *Rose Tattoo* in 1951, and also edited several of Williams' works, including the novel *The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone,* for New Directions. Bigelow, or, "the legendary Paul Bigelow" as he is called in Williams' *Memoirs*, was one of Williams's first openly gay friends.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Battle of Angels. Pharos Numbers 1 & 2, Murray, Utah, 1945.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. About fine with typical wear to yapped edges in bright wrappers. The author's first separately published work, a play. Inscribed by Williams to Tony award-winning actress, Marian Seldes: "with love to you and a salute to Tallulah, Tennessee Williams 1972." Seldes appeared in the ill-fated 1964 production of *The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore* with Tallulah Bankhead. Bankhead, in what became her last stage appearance, struggled along with the help of Seldes despite health issues which took her life four years later. The book is laid into a folding stiff paper photo frame featuring a 5" x 7" print of Seldes and Williams. A wonderful association between two Broadway legends.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.