The Rose Tattoo

(New York): New Directions, (1950).

Price: $2,500.00

Hardcover. 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 a widow wooed by truck driver Burt Lancaster.

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Item #291584 The Rose Tattoo. Tennessee WILLIAMS.
The Rose Tattoo

Tennessee Williams
birth name: Thomas Lanier Williams
born: 3/26/1911
died: 2/25/1983
nationality: USA

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American dramatist whose plays reveal a world of human frustration in which sex and violence often underlie a pervasive atmosphere of romantic gentility. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

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