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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
by Williams, Tennessee
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/fair
- Seller
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Paris, France
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About This Item
New York: New Directions, 1955. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. Good/fair. brown cloth, dust jacket clipped, 197 pp, first edition, dj soiled and badly torn, ex libris plate at the front paste down end paper, end papers soiled
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Synopsis
Tennessee Williams was born in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi, where his grandfather was the episcopal clergyman. When his father, a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St Louis some years later, both he and his sister found it impossible to settle down to city life. He entered college during the Depression and left after a couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoe company. He stayed there for two years, spending the evening writing. He entered the University of Iowa in 1938 and completed his course, at the same time holding a large number of part-time jobs of great diversity. He received a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1940 for his play Battle of Angels , and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 and 1955. Among his many other plays Penguin have published Summer and Smoke (1948), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Camino Real (1953), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Baby Doll (1957), Orpheus Descending (1957), Something Unspoken (1958), Suddenly Last Summer (1958), Period of Adjustment (1960), The Night of the Iguana (1961), The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963), and Small Craft Warnings (1972). Tennessee Williams died in 1983 .
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Details
- Bookseller
- San Francisco Book Company
(FR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 96228
- Title
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Author
- Williams, Tennessee
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Cloth/dust jacket Octavo
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- play
- Bookseller catalogs
- Theatre;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
San Francisco Book Company
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Paris
About San Francisco Book Company
A general used English language bookstore on the Left Bank in Paris
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- Soiled
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- Cloth
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- Plate
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