American Blues

(New York): Dramatists Play Service, (1948).

Price: $375.00

Softcover. First edition, first printing, with Williams' first name misspelled on the front cover "Tennesse." 77 pp. 19 cm. In dark blue stapled wrappers. Owner's name, "Brian A. Worth," and address in ink on the back wrap. Very good with some rubbing and darkening to both wraps. The fifth play, "Ten Blocks on the Camino Real," is extensively annotated (by Brian Worth?) in a neat hand in ink and pencil (pages 42-77). The annotations consists of explanatory notes, stage directions, and textual corrections. *Crandell A6.I.a.*.

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Item #297574 American Blues. 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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