Williams (Tennessee) Sweet Bird of Youth
£60
New York, A New Directions Books, 1959.
First edition, first printing. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, priced $3.25.
This play centers on Chance Wayne, a drifter and aspiring actor who returns to his hometown with faded movie star Alexandra Del Lago.
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A very good copy, in very good jacket beyond slight fading to spine.
Frontispiece. Jacket design by Daniel Shapiro.
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