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Tennessee Williams. The Rose Tattoo (SIGNED by Director, Maureen Stapleton and Eli Wallach). , 1951.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Used; Good. 59-F-22 New Directions 1951 Hardcover Book Club Edition. Signed and Inscribed by Director Cheryl Crawford, flat Signed by Maureen Stapleton, and Signed and Inscribed by Eli Wallach on page xv. (Stapleton played Serafina Delle Rose and Wallach played Alvaro Mangiacavallo). There is no other writing in the book. Jacket has some small missing pieces and sunning at spine. Book Condition; Goood Jacket Condition; Good 3-33 . 1951. Book Club Edition. BOOK CLUB EDITION.
Seller: Fleur Fine Books, Port Neches, TX, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. The Rose Tattoo. New Directions, 1951.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first edition, published by New Directions in 1951. This copy has been signed by Tennessee Williams - and then ( in a different ink ) inscribed ; ' To Phoebe Binganon, Cordially Tenn. Williams '. A near fine example of the book with just a trace of toning to the pastedowns in a very good dust jacket with chips to the spine ends and the lower tips. The jacket bears a quarter inch strip absent along the upper fore edge of the front panel. Uncommon signed by Tennessee Williams.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, Tennessee. THE ROSE TATTOO. New Directions, 1951.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: WILLIAMS, Tennessee. THE ROSE TATTOO. NY: New Directions, [1951]. 8vo., rose-colored cloth in dust jacket. First Edition (so stated). Signed by Williams on the front endpaper. Only 8,100 copies were printed, according to New Directions records. Near fine (very minor wear edges; contents clean & tight); (clean, two-inch tear along fold of front flap with little edgewear but no large nicks or chips; $3.00 price is present) d/j. A nice copy!
Seller: Antic Hay Books, Asbury Park, NJ, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. The Rose Tattoo. A New Directions Book, New York, 1951.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with the words "FIRST EDITION" printed on the copyright page. This copy is authentically SIGNED by Tennessee Williams on the title page and NOT inscribed to anyone. This original dustjacket has the publisher's $3.00 printed price present with minor wear to the edges. The book is bound in the publisher's cloth and is in great shape. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning with minor wear to the spine. The pages are clean with NO marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy SIGNED by the author.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. The Rose Tattoo.. New Directions, New York, 1951.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of one of Williams' most beautiful and powerful plays. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Tennessee Williams on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Alvin Lustig. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box. Set among a colony of Sicilian fisher-folk on the American Gulf Coast, The Rose Tattoo is the story of Serafina delle Rose, an Italian-American widow in Mississippi who has withdrawn from the world after her husband's death and expects her daughter to do the same. The play premiered on Broadway on February 2, 1951, and was published by New Directions in book form the following month.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.