WILLIAMS Tennessee [Signed by the Author] "A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur"

A signed book by Tennessee Williams.

Published by New Direction Paperbook, New York, 1980.

Small in-8° (13 x 20,2 cm). Soft cover with a picture on the cover. Small losses of paper on the first cover. Moisture stain on the whole book at the lower right corner with low impact on the text. 2 pages not numbered (with a picture of the stage and a small introduction) and 82 pages. Signature of Tennessee Williams, in blue ink, on the first page dated 1982 (i.e. one year before his death) partially impacted by the moisture and giving blue color to the stains. Used copy in medium shape.

Petit in-8 (13 x 20,2 cm). Broché avec une photo sur la couverture. Petites pertes de papier sur la première couverture. Tache d'humidité sur l'ensemble du livre dans le coin inférieur droit avec un faible impact sur le texte. 2 pages non numérotées (avec une photo de la scène et une petite introduction) et 82 pages. Signature de Tennessee Williams, à l'encre bleue, sur la première page datée de 1982 (soit un an avant sa mort) partiellement impactée par l'humidité et donnant une couleur bleue aux taches. Usures d'usage, exemplaire en état moyen.

A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur is a one-act play with two scenes. From the editor : "It is a warm June morning in the West End of St. Louis in the mid-thirties--a lovely Sunday for a picnic at Creve Coeur Lake. But Dorothea, one of Tennessee Williams's most engaging "marginally youthful," forever hopeful Southern belles, is home waiting for a phone call from the principal of the high school where she teaches civics--the man she expects to fulfill her deferred dreams of romance and matrimony ..."

Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.
His drama A Streetcar Named Desire is often numbered on short lists of the finest American plays of the 20th century alongside Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.

REF. 1619 A5