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Tennessee Williams. Memoirs. Doubleday & Company, New York, 1975.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Tennessee Williams, Memoirs, (1975) Doubleday and Company, Book near fine, light rubbing/bumping to spine ends. DJ very good; some rubbing, to edge, a couple of tiny closed tears to edge. Signed on title page by Tennessee Williams and Pat Hingle. On Broadway, Hingle originated the role of Gooper in the original Broadway production of Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955).
Seller: onourshelves, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: #334 0f 400, Limited Edition
Seller: Chicago Signed Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$398.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1975. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by Tennessee Williams directly on the front free endpaper. SEE PHOTOS. Very Good condition in a Very Good dust jacket. NOT price clipped ($8.95). The jacket is protected by a removable Demco clear-plastic sleeve. The cover of the book is a little rubbed at the extremities and two corners are mildly bumped. The jacket has a few tiny chips and is slightly (but uniformly) sunned at the spine -- NOT bad. SEE PHOTOS. Pages are clean and unmarked. 1975. First Printing with "First Edition" so stated on the copyright page. Profusely illustrated with 144 b/w photographs. Index. Bound in the original reddish-orange boards with a black cloth spine. Gilt stamping on the spine and front cover is still bright and shiny. Complete with dust jacket. SEE PHOTOS. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by Tennessee Williams. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. xxii, 264pp. + plates. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Memoirs. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, 1975.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in about fine dustwrapper with a couple very short tears. Inscribed by Williams to actress Ruth Ford: "To Ruth: You were always right! Love, Tennessee." In the book Williams' refers to Ford as "the wise and lovely actress, Ruth Ford, who seems to have been born with more worldly wisdom than I have accumulated even at this point in life." Ford, the Mississippi-born sister of surrealist author Charles Henri Ford, was a beautiful model and actress, first in Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre, and later in films and theater. Notably, she starred on Broadway in Jean Paul Sartre's *No Exit* in 1946, under the direction of John Huston (the last of five Broadway plays he directed). Her apartment in the Dakota became a salon for authors such as Williams, Edward Albee, Terrence McNally, and Truman Capote. A chance encounter between Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents in her Manhattan living room led to their collaboration, with her Dakota-neighbor Leonard Bernstein, on *West Side Story*. Similarly, she brought together Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight to create the celebrated stories of *Eloise*, the little girl who lived at the Plaza. Ford is well known also for her long friendship with William Faulkner, which began with her dating his brother Dean in the early 1930s. Faulkner was openly smitten with Ford for many years. He wrote his experimental 1951 title *Requiem for a Nun*, a sequel to his early and controversial novel *Sanctuary*, with her in mind. He further declared, to the consternation of his agent and publisher, that it was her dramatic property (*Requiem for a Nun* was a mixture of stage play and novel). Stage production of the title stalled for years, partly because Faulkner's experimental drama did not lend itself to live theatre, and partly because the producers were unsure of Ford's suitability. Faulkner was adamant that it was her dramatic property, and in 1959 she adapted the play herself and starred in its London production opposite her second husband, Zachary Scott. Her stage version received enthusiastic reviews in both London and New York, but did not fare so well with audiences and closed after a short run on Broadway. Ford continued to act on both stage and screen well into the 1980s. She passed away in 2009 at the age of 98. A wonderful inscription and nice association.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.