Very clean, tight book in bright, mildly worn dustjacket. Because the jacket was made for the larger hardcover edition, it is slightly loose fitting. Secker & Warburg London 1956 1st Edition 8vo, wraps. 197 pp. Plain paper wraps in pictorial dustjacket. Advance copy of the first English edition, signed by the author, without inscription, on the front free endpaper.The striking jacket art mimics that of the trade edition. Scarce.

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Tennessee Williams was born in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi, where his grandfather was the episcopal clergyman. When his father, a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St Louis some years later, both he and his sister found it impossible to settle down to city life. He entered college during the Depression and left after a couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoe company. He stayed there for two years, spending the evening writing. He entered the University of Iowa in 1938 and completed his course, at the same time holding a large number of part-time jobs of great diversity. He received a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1940 for his play Battle of Angels , and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 and 1955. Among his many other plays Penguin have published Summer and Smoke (1948), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Camino Real (1953), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Baby Doll (1957), Orpheus Descending (1957), Something Unspoken (1958), Suddenly Last Summer (1958), Period of Adjustment (1960), The Night of the Iguana (1961), The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963), and Small Craft Warnings (1972). Tennessee Williams died in 1983 .

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Bookseller: 12th Street Books, ABAA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: BOOKS 53104 I
Title: Cat on A Hot Tin Roof
Author: Williams, Tennessee
Book Condition: Used - Very clean, tight book in bright, mildly worn dustjacket. Because the jacket was made for the larger hardcover edition, it is sl
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Secker & Warburg
Date Published: 1956

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