Tennessee Williams — Summer and Smoke: A Play

London, John Lehmann, 1952. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition of this classic southern play from Tennessee Williams, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. Williams continued to revise Summer and Smoke in the 1950s, and in 1964 he rewrote the play as The Eccentricities of a Nightingale.With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. Set in Glorious Hill, Mississippi, from the "turn of the century through 1916", the play centres on Alma Winemiller, a highly strung, unmarried minister's daughter, and the spiritual romance that nearly blossoms between her and John Buchanan Jr. a young doctor who grew up next door. From prominent American playwright and screenwriter Tennessee Williams, credited for a string of successes including The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.   In the original cloth binding. With the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with only minor shelf wear. Dust wrapper is smart, with sunning to the spine and minor loss to the head. Short closed tear to the front panel. Handling marks to the wrap. Internally, firmly bound. With minor offsetting to the endpapers, otherwise bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.