WILLIAMS, Tennessee.
The Rose Tattoo.
First edition of Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo; signed by Him
New York: New Directions, 1951.
$2,000.00
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Item Number: RRB-143108
* Custom Clamshell Boxes are hand made by the Harcourt Bindery upon request and take approximately 60 days to complete
First edition of one of Williams' most beautiful and powerful plays. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Tennessee Williams on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Alvin Lustig. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box.
Set among a colony of Sicilian fisher-folk on the American Gulf Coast, The Rose Tattoo is the story of Serafina delle Rose, an Italian-American widow in Mississippi who has withdrawn from the world after her husband's death and expects her daughter to do the same. The play premiered on Broadway on February 2, 1951, and was published by New Directions in book form the following month.
The Rose Tattoo.
$2,000.00
In Stock





