Description
THE GLASS MENAGERIE: A PLAY – First New Classics Edition. New York: New Directions, 1949. Octavo (18.5cm); taupe cloth, with titles stamped in navy blue on spine; with original priceclipped but rather well preserved dustjacket by Alvin Lustig, now protected. xx, 124pp Williams’s first published play, a highspot of 20th-century drama, and basis for several film and T.V. adaptations. This edition includes production notes for the 1945 stage version, and an introductory essay by Williams titled “The Catastrophe of Success.”
First New Classics Edition, 1st thus with Lustig designed wrappers. Issued as No.23 in “The New Classics” series by New Directions, uncommon in this condition
