Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first mass market paperback edition, early printing of The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams. First Paperback Edition unstated, 1961 Signet. Eighth Printing, with partial number line 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 and 95 cent cover price.
The exterior of the paperback edition is in Very Good condition, with clean, lightly toned covers with no creases, a strong title on a square spine, clean page blocks, no spine tilt, lightly rubbed spine ends, mild edge wear and lightly rubbed corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with no marks, inscriptions, or signs of ownership inside. The inside covers and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
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 manila envelope with the book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
