Sale 2514 - The Pride Sale, June 20, 2019

70 c TENNESSEE WILLIAMS (1911- 1983) The Glass Menagerie. Photographic plates from the first stage production at New York City’s Playhouse Theatre. 8vo, publisher’s blue buckram lettered in gilt; dust jacket, long cellotape repairs on recto and verso along all folds and much of top and bottom edges, spine panel faded, dust soiling. New York: Random House, 1945. [700/1,000] first edition , signed by the original cast in the year of publication . Inscribed to “Jimmy,” this copy bears the signatures of Laurette Taylor, Eddie Dowling, Julie Haydon and Anthony Ross, variously accomplished in blue and black ink and pencil. 71 c CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD (1904-1986) The Berlin Stories. 8vo, publisher’s cloth, spine tanned, finger soiling, spine tips rubbed, corners bumped; unclipped dust-jacket, usual browning, spine panel and corners rubbed. (New York): New Directions, (1945). [350/500] first edition , excellent association copy , inscribed : “To Mart [Crowley] / with my love and / admiration. / Christopher Isherwood / Feb 19 1977.” American playwright Mart Crowley is best known for his groundbreaking portrayal of gay life in his 1968 Broadway play The Boys in the Band, later adapted into film by William Friedkin. 70 71