The Rose Tattoo

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS The Rose Tattoo. !950, New Directions, NY. STATED FIRST PRINTING. Used. Very Good/ Good- Condition Original Lustig pink rose dust jacket. Front flap Price $3.00. Nice. Summary: A drama with comedic elements. Set in the 20th Century American South. About an Italian family. 144 pages. 5 1/2 X 8 3/8

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1955. Vintage reference photograph of playwright and screenwriter Tennessee Williams with director Daniel Mann and Anna Magnani on the set of the 1955 film. Based on the 1950 play by Tennessee Williams. Williams wrote the play for Anna Magnani to play on Broadway, which she rejected because she felt she was not yet… Read more about this item

(New York): New Directions, 1950. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Tiny stains on the boards else near fine in very good dustwrapper with some tape shadows on the rear panel from an old repair. Signed by the author. A hit play and basis for the 1955 Daniel Mann film featuring Anna Magnani in an Oscar-winning role, as… Read more about this item

NY: New Directions, 1950. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good+. Octavo. 144pp. Bound in the first issue binding of original rose cloth stamped in black; a near fine, bright copy, in pink and white dust jacket depicting a rose; unclipped, a tiny chip along top edge of rear panel. A lovely copy of one of… Read more about this item

New York: New Directions. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Rose cloth titled in black. Stated first edition. Some toning to spine and end pages. Jacket is quite worn along edges and shows tape residue. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

New York: New Directions, 1951. First Edition. First Edition. A three-act play written by Tennessee Williams in 1950, basis for the 1955 film directed by Daniel Mann, starring Anna Magnani and Burt Lancaster. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Boards lightly rubbed. Jacket lightly rubbed, with minute chips at the corners.

New York: Signet Book, 1955. Softcover. Near Fine. First paperback edition. Octavo. Paper wrappers with bumped corner, near fine. Includes stills from the movie.

London: Secker and Warburg, 1954. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First English edition. About fine in very good or better dustwrapper with a creased tear on the front panel.

(New York): New Directions Book, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Pink cloth boards with title on spine. Very good with owner's name on front fly, in very good spine-sunned and price-clipped dustwrapper with a tape shadow visible near the foot of the spine.

(New York): New Directions, 1950. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in slightly shortened and a little spine-faded else very near fine dustwrapper.

New York: New Directions, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth. Very good in worn dust wrapper, lacking small portion lower left front corner. 144 pages. 20.4 x 13.5 cm. Heavily annotated with marginal notes, apparently with Director commentary noting music interludes, animal sounds, phone ringing, instructions to cast as to pace and emotion, etc. In original dust… Read more about this item

[New York]: New Directions Book, [1950]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original red cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xv,[1],144pp. A few shallow losses and closed tears to jacket extremities, else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket.

New York: A New Directions Book, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/fair. Octavo. Hardcover with illustrated dust jacket. xvi, 144 pages. One frontispiece photograph. Illustrated. Tan cloth hardcover with red title on the spine. Light toning to the front and rear hinges. Dust jacket is edge worn with a small chip on the spine. Price of 3.00 on the… Read more about this item

New York: New Directions, 1950. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 144 pages. One the better plays from the author of "A Streetcar Named Desire," "The Glass Menagerie" and numerous other classics. A very good in cloth boards and in a very good Alvin Lustig designed dust jacket that has some chips and tears and wear.

Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1951. First Edition. First Edition. A three-act play written by Tennessee Williams in 1950, basis for the 1955 film directed by Daniel Mann, starring Anna Magnani and Burt Lancaster. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Boards lightly rubbed at the edges. Jacket lightly chipped at the corners.

(New York): New Directions, 1950. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first binding. Fine in near fine dust jacket without the usual spine fading but with a light shadow visible from an old internal repair. A nice copy.

New York: New Directions, 1951 First printing of the stated first edition; in first state binding and in original dust jacket. Book in fine condition; dust jacket with moderate paper loss and shelf wear, else fine.

(New York): New Directions, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, second binding (gray). Offsetting on front endpaper from pertinent newspaper clippings, spine ends and corners worn and bumped, else very good in near very good dust jacket with some loss on the spine ends and corners. Newspaper clippings laid in pertaining to Italian actress Anna Magnani and… Read more about this item

Paperback. Very Good.

New York: New Directions, 1950. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Good. Alvin Lustig (dust jacket). 8vo. Pp. xv, 144. Illustrated with one black & white photo reproduction of the Broadway production stage setting by Boris Aronson. First Edition stated on the copyright page. Light gray cloth, titles printed in red on the spine. In… Read more about this item