Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first edition, first printing hardcover copy of The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams. First Edition unstated, 1961 New Directions. First Printing, with no subsequent print date.
Near Fine hardcover with clean, bright boards, lightly foxed page blocks, tight binding, straight spine, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear and strong corners. No marks or inscriptions inside. Pages clean and bright.
Very Good+ un-clippped dust jacket with moderate toning and edge wear. There are two 1/2″ tears on the seam of the rear flap. First state jacket with the striking cover design by Alvin Lustig. Looks great in new Brodart archival wrap.
Tennessee Williams wrote: “This is a play about love in its purest terms.” It is also Williams’s robust and persuasive plea for endurance and resistance in the face of human suffering. The earthy widow Maxine Faulk is proprietress of a rundown hotel at the edge of a Mexican cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean where the defrocked Rev. Shannon, his tour group of ladies from a West Texas women’s college, the self-described New England spinster Hannah Jelkes and her ninety-seven-year-old grandfather, Jonathan Coffin, a family of grotesque Nazi vacationers, and an iguana tied by its throat to the veranda, all find themselves assembled for a rainy and turbulent night.
Ships promptly in a secure mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
