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Cat on a hot tin roof. / By Tennessee Williams.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983.
- Series:
- New Directions book
- A New Directions book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Inheritance and succession--Drama.
- Inheritance and succession.
- Fathers and sons--Drama.
- Fathers and sons.
- Southern States--Drama.
- Southern States.
- Terminally ill--Drama.
- Terminally ill.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Speiser, Maurice J. (Maurice Joseph), b. 1880 (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Speiser, Mrs. (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 197 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : New Directions Books are published by James Laughlin, [1955.]
- Notes:
- "Copyright 1955 by Tennessee Williams."
- "Book Designed by Stefan Salter."
- "Jacket design by Alvin Lustig."
- "Tennessee Williams has preferred to revert here to the third act of 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' as he originally wrote it, and as an appendix gives the third act he worked out during the pre-Broadway tryouts."--Dustjacket.
- "'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' was presented at the Morosco Theatre in New York on March 24, 1955, by The Playwrights' Company ..."
- Second printing added note on title-page verso: Grateful acknowledgment is made to the 'New York Times Dunday Drama Section in which the article 'Person-to-peron first appeared..--Cf. Crandell.
- Light brown cloth binding stamped in black on spine.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has label "The Holliday Bookshop ... N.Y." on back pastedown.
- Culture Class Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Culture Class Collection copy is "Third Printing".
- Cited in:
- Crandell, G. W. : Tennessee Williams, p. 129
- OCLC:
- 291432
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