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POIGNANT FAMILY ASSOCIATION WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE. 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, approximately 1- 1/4 inch square chip at spine panel head not affecting lettering, few small nicks and light edgewear, corners clipped retaining price; discreet booklabel to rear pastedown. New York: Random House, (1945)
first edition, presentation copy from the author's sister, Rose Isabel Williams ("Rose"), to "Bert" with the year of publication added below in a different pen. Rose Isabel Williams, Tennessee Williams' sister, was the model for the character of Laura Wingfield (known to her Gentleman Caller as 'Blue Roses') in The Glass Menagerie. "Born in 1919 and raised in the same stressful household as her brother Thomas (later Tennessee), she spent most of her life from 1943 on in mental institutions following a prefrontal lobotomy authorized by her mother, Edwina" (Playbill, 10 September, 1996).
