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WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE. A Streetcar Named Desire. 8vo, publisher's pictorial lavender boards designed by Alvin Lustig, extremities rubbed with some exposure to boards, spine tips and corners; dust jacket, moderate fingersoiling, tape repairs to spine panel verso and along length of flap folds on recto, spine panel faded with some abrading, edgewear including head of spine panel and small portion of upper front panel chipped but with no loss of letters, corners narrowly clipped retaining price; contents clean. (New York): New Directions, (1947)
first edition signed by williams and six of the principal members of the original broadway cast. Besides the author, this copy bears the signatures of Gee Gee James, Peg Hillias, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden, Jessica Tandy, and Marlon Brando, who added a brief inscription. The autographs accomplished in either ink or pencil, and all are clear with no smudging.
association copy, ex-collection herbert adrian rehner, with his signature, dated 1948, on front pastedown. Rehner was a college classmate of one of Karl Malden's younger brothers, and the two made numerous trips to New York in the 1940s. It was during this time they were introduced to the actors that director Elia Kazan had assembled for the Broadway debut of Williams' play. Rehner was a frequent dinner guest of Williams' during this period, though the extent of their friendship is not well documented. Herbert Rehner was also a survivor of the USS Indianapolis, spent a year as a student then teacher at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and was one of the early recipients of a Fullbright Fellowship. Copies signed by the author and cast members are rare, those with a compelling provenance rarer still. Crandell A5.1.a.
