Apr 22, 2010 - Sale 2211

Sale 2211 - Lot 226

Price Realized: $ 840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE.) Two books: A Streetcar Named Desire. Signed and extensively Inscribed, by costume designer Lucinda Ballard, in pencil * Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone. Signed by Tennessee Williams. The first, Signed and Inscribed on the front free endpaper, "Lucinda Ballard Dietz / Sands Point," and also Inscribed, on the front and rear blanks, with a 9-page account of her experiences working on Streetcar, mentioning Williams, Marlon Brando, Judy Garland, David and Irene Selznick, Jessica Tandy, Elia "Gadge" Kazan, and others. Also with a few brief holograph remarks concerning costuming scattered throughout, in pencil. Ninth printing. 8vo, publisher's cloth; dust jacket. The second, Signed diagonally across the title-page. 8vo, publisher's cloth; endpapers discolored; dust jacket. [New York, 1947]; inscription: Sands Point, [1951-83]; [New York, 1950]; inscription: Np, nd
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"I didn't want to work on 'Streetcar' for several reasons . . . . I couldn't stand the throught of Irene Selznick . . . .
". . . Marlon Brando had been the 16 year old eldest son in 'I remember Maud,' . . . & he didn't seem right, I remembered him as blonde and abnormally sensitive. . . ."