Williams, Tennessee

Signed, limited first edition of the iconic US playwright’s autobiography, one of only 400 copies issued.

• Tennessee Williams (American).
• Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1975.
• [2], xxii, 264 pages.
• Illustrated with black-and-white images in full-page spreads throughout.
• Signed by Williams on the limitation page, numbered 77.
• Sheet of Williams-themed postal stamps laid in.
• Bound in original green cloth lettered in gilt, fore-edge machine deckle with original acetate jacket.
• Presented in green slipcase with printed title label.

“I like the crowd I’m with, here in Venice, all of them: Sylvia Miles, Joe Dallesandro, Paul Morrissey, little Andy Warhol so much like a lost little boy, lost in time.” 

A warm and frank recounting of his formative years and successes, Williams’s Memoirs was clearly meant to ride the momentum of the playwright’s reputation, but is much better than it needs to be. Williams shares his feelings about high points (”After the success of Menagerie [...] I felt a great depression, probably because I never believed that anything would continue, would hold”), introduces colorful cameos of friends like Leonard Bernstein, and talks candidly about his experiences with gay lovers. Required reading for any Williams devotee, here in a deluxe collectible form.