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Author: Williams, Tennessee
Title: A Streetcar Named Desire
Place: [New York]
Publisher: New Directions
Date: [1947]
Item # : 168793
Sale Number   327
Lot Number   430
Sale Name    
The Edwin Blair Collection of Beat Literature, plus Modern Literature
Sale Date   03/09/2006
Price realized   $ 690
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Description:
Lavender boards with black and white decorations, jacket with matching decorations. First Edition, First State.
First state in original lavender boards (changed for later printings), which Ahearn explains are "extremely vulnerable to fading and edge wear." Pulitzer Prize-winning drama by one of America's greatest playwrights. The basis for the explosive 1951 film featuring Marlon Brando.
Condition:
Jacket spine and margins faded, short tears and chips to edges (chiefly to top rear panel), price clipped; slight fading to volume spine and margins, shelf wear; very good or better; jacket about very good.
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