Williams, Tennessee. Suddenly Last Summer. New Directions, 1958, 1958.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: 1st edition, first printing Fine/fine (this copy is signed by, and bears the stamp of, Audrey Wood, WilliamsÕ famous agent)

Seller: Reed's Rare Books, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.

WILLIAMS, Tennessee. SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER (SIGNED). New Directions,, New York,, 1958.

Price: US$1034.89 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 90. Original publisher's red cloth lettered white at the spine. A play - later filmed featuring Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Mercedes McCambridge, and Montgomery Clift. A contemporary reviewer wrote of the play (quoted on inner front panel of jacket ) '.an exercise in the necromancy of writing.a superb achievement." Signed presentation from the author on the front endpaper 'To Jerry fondly, Tennessee Williams.' Jerry is likely to be the producer of The Glass Menagerie Jerry Wald -- he is noted in the Tennessee Williams Delaware collection as a correspndent of TW and likely to have been a friend. Very good indeed in slightly used else near vg d/w (sl nicks, slight marking Front panel of jacket in verygood order showing a drawing by Gill of a wheelchair with the words 'From Garden District.'

Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom

Williams, Tennessee. Suddenly Last Summer. New Directions, New York, 1958.

Price: US$1999.99 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Maroon cloth, white spine lettering. Stated 2nd printing. Signed by Williams to the ffep. Spine ends/points gently rubbed. Tiny pen mark to front pastedown. Small ding to edge. Foxing confined to frontis verso, neighboring page, and slightly to endpages. The DJ in mylar is chipped to spine ends, slightly toned. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author

Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.

Williams, Tennessee. SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER. New Directions Book (1958), (New York), 1958.

Price: US$2500.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. SIGNED BY WILLIAMS on front endpaper. Basis for the 1959 movie starring Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, and Montgomery Clift. Very good to near fine with touch of faint foxing to pastedowns, small strip of minor sunning to base of spine, and front board subtly toned; in near fine dust jacket slightly tanned and subtly rubbed at spine. Photographic postcard featuring Williams laid in.

Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.

WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Suddenly Last Summer. New Directions, (New York), 1958.

Price: US$3500.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition. Near fine with light wear at the corners and offsetting on the endpapers in lightly toned near fine dust jacket with some wear at the spine ends. Signed by Tennessee Williams, and Inscribed twice by the book's dedicatee Anne Meachem to her close friend and fellow classmate at the Yale School of Drama, Marian Seldes. Meachem inscribed the book on a sheet laid down onto the front pastedown ("My dearest Marian another Catherine - Annie") and again on the dedication page ("Marian - love Annie"), where Meachem is listed as the dedicatee. Meachem won an Obie Award for her portrayal of Catherine in the debut of the 1958 off-Broadway production of the play. The book is additionally Inscribed by the play's director Herbert Machiz. Tennessee Williams worked alongside Seldes when she starred with Tallulah Bankhead in his ill-fated production of *The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore*. A remarkable association copy of this important Tennessee Williams one-act play.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.