119 130
POIGNANT FAMILY
ASSOCIATION
275
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WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE.
The
Glass Menagerie.
Photographic plates
from the first stage production at New
York City’s Playhouse Theatre. 8vo, pub-
lisher’s blue buckram lettered in gilt; dust
jacket, approximately 1-
1
/
4
inch square
chip at spine panel head not affecting let-
tering, few small nicks and light
edgewear, corners clipped retaining price;
discreet booklabel to rear pastedown.
NewYork: Random House, (1945)
[1,200/1,800]
FIRST EDITION
,
PRESENTATION COPY
FROM THE AUTHOR
’
S SISTER
,
Rose Isabel
Williams (“Rose”), to “Bert” with the year of
publication added below in a different pen.
Rose Isabel Williams,Tennessee Williams’ sis-
ter, was the model for the character of Laura
Wingfield (known to her Gentleman Caller as
‘Blue Roses’) in The Glass Menagerie. “Born
in 1919 and raised in the same stressful
household as her brother Thomas (later Tennessee), she spent most of her life from 1943 on in mental
institutions following a prefrontal lobotomy authorized by her mother, Edwina” (Playbill, 10
September, 1996).
276
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WOOLF, VIRGINIA.
A Room of One’s Own.
Tall 8vo, original gilt-lettered
cinnamon cloth, minimal rubbing to spine tips and corners, boards with some light discol-
oration; light offsetting to front free endpaper from facing bookplate, else internally clean;
later card slipcase.
NewYork/London:The Fountain Press/The Hogarth Press, 1929
[3,000/4,000]
FIRST EDITION
,
NUMBER
103
OF
492
COPIES OF THE LIMITED LARGE
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PAPER EDI
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TION
,
SIGNED BY WOOLF ON THE
HALF
-
TITLE
.
“A woman must have money and
a room of her own if she is going to write.”
Kirkpatrick A12a.