Clothes for a Summer Hotel: A Ghost Play by Tennessee Williams - 1983-05

New York: New Directions, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Black cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, not illustrated. Book has faint soil to boards, binding tight, text clean and unmarked but carrying mild odor. DJ has mild rubbing, front flap price clipped.

first edition first printing New Directions hardcover in dust jacket; prior owner front free end page;unmarked text;vprior moisture stain bottom page corners; foxing present on end papers; tight bind; dj edge wear-- short tears top front and bottom front corner; flap price clipped ambibab

New York. 1983. New Directions. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0811208702. 77 pages. hardcover. Jacket art a detail of 'Etrange Dialogue' by C.J. Laughlin. keywords: Drama America Literature. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The late Tennessee Williams's CLOTHES FOR A SUMMER HOTEL made its New York debut in 1950. Here Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, often seen as symbols of the doomed youth of the jazz age, become two halves of a single creative psyche, each part alternately feeding and then devouring the other. Set in Highland Hospital near Asheville, North Carolina, where Zelda spent her last confinement, this ‘ghost play' begins several years after Scott's death of a heart attack in California. But the past is ‘still always present' in Zelda, and Williams's constant shifting of chronology and mixing of remembrance with ghostly re-enactment suggest that our real intimacy is with the shadow characters of our own minds. As Williams said in the Author's Note… Read More

Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

New York: New Directions. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1983. Hardcover. 0811208702 . Williams' play features Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald and debuted in New York in 1980; 8vo; 77 pages .

New Directions. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1983. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0811208702 . Lightly bumped boards. Price clipped DJ protected in mylar, slight edgewear, small closed tear upper spine end. Solid binding and clean text. Number stamp in red on rfep. No ownership marks, ex-lib marks or stickers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 77 pages .

(New York): New Directions, 1983. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First hardcover edition, preceded by an acting edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. A play featuring some of the Lost Generation: Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hadley and Ernest Hemingway, and Sara and Gerald Murphy.

(New York): New Directions, 1983. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First hardcover edition, preceded by an acting edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. A play featuring some of the Lost Generation: Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hadley and Ernest Hemingway, and Sara and Gerald Murphy.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.