A Streetcar Named Desire

New York: New Directions, 1947.

"Out of poetic imagination and ordinary compassion he has spun a poignant and luminous story.”

(Item #1311) A Streetcar Named Desire. Tennessee Williams.

A Streetcar Named Desire

New York: New Directions, 1947. First edition. A lovely copy of this theater and film highspot. A Fine copy of the book in like dust jacket. One small nick to the upper board and a short half-inch closed tear at the top of the front panel, but neither defect pushing this copy below Fine. Completely untoned and unfaded and exceptionally scarce as such. With a signed promo photo of Vivien Leigh laid in. Leigh won the Oscar for Best Actress for her role as Blanche in the 1951 film adaptation by Elia Kazan starring her, Marlon Brando and Kim Hunter. Exceptionally scarce in this condition.

Tennessee Williams’ 1947 masterpiece, a Pulitzer Prize winning work that remains one of the great plays of the American theatre. A Streetcar Named Desire follows Blanche DuBois as she moves to New Orleans to live with her sister, Stella, and Stella’s husband Stanley. Like many of Williams' plays, some of the characters are thought to be inspired by members of Williams’ own family.

A Streetcar Named Desire originally premiered on Broadway on December 3rd 1949, starring Marlon Brando and Jessica Tandy and directed by Eliza Kazan. The London production involved such theatrical luminaries as Vivian Leigh and Laurence Olivier. Of course, the play would be adapted in a classic film version in 1951, which would win four Academy Awards including Best Actress, and was chosen as the Library of Congress as ‘culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.’ “But Mr. Williams is entitled to his own independence. For he has not forgotten that human beings are the basic subject of art. Out of poetic imagination and ordinary compassion he has spun a poignant and luminous story.” (Contemporary New York Times review)
Fine in Fine dust jacket. (Item #1311)

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