The Glass Menagerie

New York: Random House, (1945).

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Hardcover. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with two small chips: one at the crown and one on the front panel. A spectacular association copy, Inscribed on the front endpaper to his future publisher James Laughlin: "For Jay who I wanted to do it. Hope there'll be others he will. 10." Author's first play by a commercial publisher, and the first (of four) by Williams to win the New York Drama Critic's Circle. Laughlin would publish under his New Directions imprint nearly all of Williams's other plays, novels, and volumes of poetry, including his next play, *A Streetcar Named Desire* in 1947. Williams became the start of New Directions and was a lifelong friend of Laughlin. A wonderful inscription and historic association.

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Item #397485 The Glass Menagerie. Tennessee WILLIAMS.

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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