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Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Price NOT clipped, DJ nicely in archival wraps with heavy wear and tears to the edges; pages dusty with light age toning. Illustrated. Inscribed by the editor (Dick Leavitt) on the inside end page with reference to Truman Capote and dated 24 May 1989.
Seller: Hudson River Book Shoppe, Waldwick, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1978. Limited Edition of 250 copies, of which this is #142. Signed by Williams and Leavitt on limitation page. Quarto. 168 pages. Numerous black and white photographs and illustrations and 16 in color. Illustrated dust jacket. Tan boards stamped in gilt. Light brown slipcase. Errata slip laid in at front. Price-clipped dust jacket is lightly worn along edges with some vertical rippling to front panel. Boards show light wear to extremities with some very light fraying at corners. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Slipcase lightly worn at corners with some sparse rubbing, but overall sturdy and square. A pictorial biography of the playwright drawing upon previously-unpublished photographs, manuscripts, and letters from the Williams family archives.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Leavitt, Richard F. [ed.]. The World of Tennessee Williams. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1978.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Hardcover, beige cloth, in price-clipped dust-jacket, housed in original publisher's slipcase. 168 pages. Limited/Numbered/signed. Signed by author and Williams. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. True first edition, limited to 250 copies, this being no. 243, signed by both Richard F. Leavitt and Tennessee Williams on limitation page. With 200 illustrations and errata slip laid-in. Dust-jacket is price clipped and shows minor rubbing to fore-edge at fold. Box is lightly bumped at top edge. A fine copy in a near fine dust-jacket and very good slipcase. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
Seller: Great Expectations Rare Books, Staten Island, NYC, NY, U.S.A.
Leavitt, Richard F. (Editor). The World of Tennessee Williams. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1978.
Price: US$285.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: SIGNED by Tennessee Williams and Richard Leavitt (the editor), number 64 of 250 copies. A lavishly illustrated book on the life and work of Tennessee Williams. PHYSICAL DETAILS: Quarto, 176 pages, in dust jacket with slipcase (hard cover). CONDITION: Near Fine in a price-clipped dust jacket in original cardboard slipcase. Errata slip laid in. Slipcase a bit dusty.
Seller: Le Bookiniste, ABAA-ILAB-IOBA, Hopewell, NJ, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. Man Makes Himself. G.P. Putnam's Sons,, New York, 1978.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Edited by Richard F. Leavitt with an introduction by Tennessee Williams. Limited edition page reads. "Two hundred and fifty copies of this first edition have been signed by Richard Freeman Leavitt and Tennessee Williams." Signatures in ink by Williams and Leavitt" Copy Number:208. 168pp. Indexed. Illustrated end papers. Plain tan cloth binding with gilt title, editor and publisher on spine. Content clean, bright and sound. No faults. In original tan paper covered cardborad slip case.
Seller: Old Favorites Bookshop LTD (since 1954), Stouffville, ON, Canada