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Tennessee Williams. Moise and the World of Reason. Simon & Schuster, 1975.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed. First Edition. Remainder mark on bottom pages, else a brilliant signed copy. Green Apple Books and Music, Publisher Weekly's Bookstore of the Year 2014, has been San Francisco's favorite independent bookseller since 1967! Shipping costs on oversize / international orders will reflect actual shipping charges and may be more than quoted by ABE. We will need to contact you with true shipping costs and ask for authorization before adjusting cost.
Seller: Green Apple Books and Music, san francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Neatly signed on tipped-in page: "Tennessee Williams".
Seller: Plain Tales Books, Arlington Hts, IL, U.S.A.
Tennessee Williams. Moise and the World of Reason (signed first edition). Simon & Schuster, 1975.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing with full number line. Signed by Williams on front endpaper. A very good copy but with foxing on all edges and the some on the interior and the DJ is toned and appears to have been exposed to heat, now protected in removable archival mylar. See my photos of the book you will receive, not stock photos. All books are wrapped in bubble wrap and shipped in a cardboard box. USPS tracking provided. #52
Seller: Nightshade Booksellers, IOBA member, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee.. MOISE AND THE WORLD OF REASON.. Simon & Schuster: NY, 1975.
Price: US$143.75 + shipping
Description: 8.25 x 5.5, boards, 190 pp, vg in slightly used and yellowed dw. FIRST ED, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. Moise and the World of Reason. Simon & Schuster; (1975), NY, 1975.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Page edges are just slightly darkened, as are the edges of the dust jacket flaps. Signed by the author on a page tipped in after the front endpaper (an edition done for Kroch & Brentano's First Edition Circle).
Seller: Tulsa Books, Tulsa, OK, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee (SIGNED). MOISE AND THE WORLD OF REASON -. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1975.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY TENNESSEE WILLIAM ON FFEP. First printing, 190pp. Bound in black paper covered boards, spine lettering blue and silver, blue endpapers. A fine copy in clipped dust jacket.
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. MOISE AND THE WORLD OF REASON. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1975.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: Signed first edition, advance review copy, of Williams's second and last novel, "a kind of autobiographical peep show full of jeux d'esprit" (Korda). 8'' x 5.5''. Original black cloth. Bright blue endpapers. In original unclipped ($6.95) blue dust jacket. 190 pages. Signed by Williams on front free endpaper. Original publisher's review slip laid in. Light edgewear to boards, some creasing and wear to jacket.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. Moise and the World of Reason. Simon and Schuster, New York:, 1975.
Price: US$185.00 + shipping
Description: black cloth w/ turquoise & silver spine lettering; turquoise endpapers; 190 pgs; dust jacket lettered in black, w/ $6.95 on front flap, back cover author photo by Frederic Ohringer. jacket design by Wendell Minor.
Seller: Flips Fine Books, Greensboro, GA, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. Moise and the World of Reason. Simon & Schuster, New York, New York, 1975.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1/8" tear on top, left front cover. Brodart dust jacket cover. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
Tennessee williams. Moise and the World of Reason, Deluxe Edition. Simon & Schuster, 1975.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Simon & Schuster May 1975 Binding: Novelty Full Blue Morocco, gilt spine, 270 of 350 limited edition copies signed by the author. $nrp
Seller: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Moise and the World of Reason. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1975.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in light toned dustwrapper else fine.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee (SIGNED). MOISE AND THE WORLD OF REASON. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1975.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Octavo. SIGNED BY TENNESSEE WILLIAMS without personalization. First printing, 190pp., bound in black paper covered boards, spine lettering blue and silver, blue endpapers. A fine bright copy in unclipped nearly fine dust jacket. A lovely copy.
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. MOISE & THE WORLD OF REASON. Simon & Schuster, 1975.
Price: US$203.00 + shipping
Description: MOISE & THE WORLD OF REASON, S & S, 1975, lst ed., fine in like dust-wrapper. SIGNED by the author.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. Moise and The World of Reason. Simon and Schuster, 1975.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition.Fine in About Fine D.J.SIGNED by Williams.(L3/8)
Seller: NUDEL BOOKS, New York, NY, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE. Moise and the World of Reason. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1975.
Price: US$225.90 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo. Full dark blue leather gilt lettered on spine. Top edge gilt. Limited edition of 350 copies only numbered and signed by the author on a special limitation page. Fine copy.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Williams, Tennessee. Moise and the World of Reason. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1975.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Late novel from the great playwright, #240 of 350 of the first edition (first printing) bound in full leather and SIGNED by Williams on a special limitation page. Fine, no jacket as issued. Size: Octavo
Seller: Bookworks [MWABA, IOBA], Beloit, WI, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee.. Moise and the World of Reason.. New York: Simon and Schuster, [1975]., 1975.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. 190 pp. Black boards with spine stamped in silver and turquoise. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Else fine in lightly soiled d.j. Signed by the author on the half-title. First edition.
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. Moise and The Work of Reason. Simon and Schuster, 1975.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Simon & Schuster, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1975. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine and unclipped showing the price at $6.95. First edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. Boldly signed and inscribed in blue ink on the FFEP: "To Mr. Bill Rayburn Sincerely, Tennessee Williams". For shipping cost outside Canada, please contact the seller.
Seller: Robert Rankin Books, Caledonia, ON, Canada
Williams, Tennessee. MOISE AND THE WORLD OF REASON. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1975.
Price: US$285.00 + shipping
Description: Number 99 of 350 copies of the deluxe issue, signed by Williams on a special limitation page. Bound in the publisher's dark blue full leather with lettering stamped in gilt on the spine. The number 0199 stamped to the upper corner of the front free endpaper. Very short strike to the gilt edging at the top of the text block, else a fine copy, issued without a dust jacket.
Seller: Robert Gavora, Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Talent, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo., 190pp. Beautiful First Printing, with full number sequence, and limited to only 350 copies of which this is #109. Bound in full deep navy leather with titles stamped in gold on spine. t.e.g. Square tight and clean throughout with a hint of wear at the bottom tips and heel but quite minor. Signed by VWilliams on the limitation page. A gorgeous collectable copy at a great price.
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books ABAA, IOBA, Manasquan, NJ, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. Moise and the World of Reason. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1975.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Dark blue leather, stamped in gilt and blind, fine. One of 350 numbered and signed copies, specially printed and bound. Crandell A41.1.a.
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. Moise and the World of Reason. Simon and Schuster, 1975.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: NY: Simon and Schuster, 1975. First edition (copyright page has 1 on the number sequence). INSCRIBED twice by the author (but only signed once), on the front free end-paper, and the second front interior page. Book and dust jacket fine, both very slightly shelf-worn. DJ flap price reads $6.95. We will provide a certificate of authenticity for this item.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, Tennessee. MOISE AND THE WORLD OF REASON. Simon and Schuster (1975), New York, 1975.
Price: US$312.50 + shipping
Description: Crandell A41.I.b. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. An Advance Review Copy of the First Trade Edition with slip laid in.
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Moise and the World of Reason. Simon and Schuster, (New York), 1975.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, limited issue. Fine in full leather. Copy 208 of 350 numbered copies Signed by the author.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$330.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. Full navy blue morocco with gilt spine titles; top edge gilt; 190pp. One of 350 copies, signed by the author on limitation leaf. A fine, unworn copy.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$345.00 + shipping
Description: Signed by author in black ink on publisher's tipped in page following ffep. The publication of a major work of fiction by Tennessee Williams—the most gifted playwright and poet of the human emotions of our time—is a major literary event. His gift for dialogue, his shrewd instinct for phrase and language, and his unerring knowledge of the regions of soul where desire, regret and loneliness lie in wait for the traveler make this remarkable novel a work as moving and powerful as his enduring plays—A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Glass Menagerie. At the center of Moise and the World of Reason is the need of three people for each other: Moise, an impoverished and quixotic young painter with a gift for unfinished canvases; the narrator, a young man from Thelma, Alabama, who is determinied to be a distinguished writer; and Lance, the man whose intensity, strength and sensuality held them all togther while he lived, and whose absence gives the novel its strange and haunting power and pathos. For the subject of Tennessee Williams’ novel is the need for love—a need which Lance once filled in the narrator and his new lover does not, and which Moise’s never entirely fills for her. It is this need that propels them through a long and restless night in Greenwich Village—a night in which Moise gives a party to announce her retirement from “the world of reason”; in which the narrator loses his roommate, the “second love of his life”; and in which a lifetime of experience, hope, the loss of innocence and the rekindling of desire is exposed in a series of scenes and encounters so dramatic, moving and precise that only Tennessee Williams could have written them. Erotic, sensual, comic, and totally convincing, MOISE AND THE WORLD OF REASON is a major work by one of the most distinguished artists of American literature. Very fine, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. *Packed carefully and shipped in a box to insure arrival in pristine condition. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} BUND
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, Tennessee.. Moise and the World of Reason.. New York, Simon and Schuster [1975]., 1975.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 8vo. Original blue and silver stamped black boards. Dust jacket (unclipped). Very good. No other signatures or bookplates. Signed and inscribed by Williams in black ink on the front free endpaper to Stanley Kaminsky: "To Stanley, with best wishes always, Tennessee Williams, '75." Provenance: from the estate of Stanley Kaminsky. Stanley Kaminsky and Sam Lurie were publicists.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Moise and the World of Reason. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1975.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Moise and the World of Reason. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1975.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket with faintest toning. Advance Review Copy with publisher's printed slip laid in. Signed by the author.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. Moise and the World of Reason. Simon & Schuster, 1975.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SIGNED LIMITED EDITION of Tennessee Williams' Moise and the World of Reason. Published in New York by Simon & Schuster in 1975. This is number 276 of 350 copies. First edition, with number sequence 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 on copyright page. Signed and numbered on the colophon page. Gilt titles with gilt top edge. Book very fine in full deep blue leather, without dj as issued. A scarce item.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Tennessee Williams. Moise and the World of Reason. Simon & Schuster, U.S.A., 1975.
Price: US$430.10 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine Book & Jacket, no Flaws, Signed 1st ed 1st pt in protective cover
Seller: Dallas Surplus Stacks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. Moise and The World of Reason. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1975.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Small 8vo. Bound in full dark blue Moroccan leather, with spine titles stamped in gold, and author's initials stamped on front panel. Top edge gilt. No. 106 of an edition limited to 350 copies, signed by Williams.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE. Moise and the world of reason. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1975.
Price: US$562.50 + shipping
Description: First edition, one of 350 numbered copies (this, no. 26) specially bound and signed by the author, 8vo, pp. 190; fine in original blue goat, spine gilt, t.e.g.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Tennessee Williams. MOISE & THE WORLD OF REASON. Simon & Schuster, 1975.
Price: US$625.00 + shipping
Description: MOISE & THE WORLD OF REASON, 1st w/dj, signed.
Seller: George's Books & Autographs, Memphis, TN, U.S.A.
Tennessee Williams. MOISE & THE WORLD OF REASON. Simon & Schuster, 1975.
Price: US$625.00 + shipping
Description: MOISE & THE WORLD OF REASON ,1st w/dj,Inscribed and signed in French.
Seller: George's Books & Autographs, Memphis, TN, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Moise and the World of Reason. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1975.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Uncorrected proof. Tall printed wrappers. Text a little bowed, else near fine. Signed by Tennessee Williams.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Moise and the World of Reason. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1975.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in a slightly age-toned, else fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by Williams to actress Ruth Ford: "To Ruth with my heart on my sleeve. Love, Tennessee." In Williams' *Memoirs* he 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.