Lot 675

'Williams, Tennessee' [Williams, Thomas Lanier]

£300

Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts

Auction: Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts

Description

Cat on a hot tin roof. New York: New Directions, 1955. First edition, 8vo, with loose piece of paper laid-down onto card signed by the author and including a quotation from Shakespeare's 53rd Sonnet: "What is your substance,/ Whereof are you made/ That millions of strange shadows/ on you tend?" Shakespeare not Tennessee Williams, original cloth, faded spine; [Idem] Steps must be gentle. New York: Targ Editions, 1980. 8vo, one of 350 copies signed by the author, quarter cloth, original marbled boards; [Idem] Orpheus descending, with battle of angels. New York: New Directions, 1958. 8vo, with loose piece of paper signed by the author dedicated to 'John', original blue cloth, dustwrapper a little chipped and creased; [Idem] The Roman spring of Mrs. Stone. New York: New Directions, 1950. First edition, 8vo, original black cloth with yellow dustwrapper not price-clipped, dustwrapper slightly chipped and dust-soiled; [Idem] The Roman spring of Mrs. Stone. London: John Lehmann Ltd, 1950. First British edition, 8vo, original green cloth, dustwrapper badly torn with loss to both covers and spine, spine of book faded; [Idem] Hard candy. New York: New Directions, 1959. 8vo, original black cloth, dustwrapper not price-clipped but slightly soiled with a very small amount of chipping, ownership signature of Peggy Guggenheim to first free-endpaper; [Idem] Baby doll. New York: New Directions, 1956. First edition? 8vo, original yellow cloth, dustwrapper price-clipped and a little chipped and creased, yellow cloth slightly soiled, some darkening to endpapers, gift inscription to first free-endpaper reads: Peggy Guggenheim, from Willie Bruce (9)

Footnote

Note: Many thanks to Silvio Veronese, Head Librarian at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, for identifying Peggy Guggenheim's signature.