"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."
— C. S. Lewis
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
London: John Lehmann, 1950. [Literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp. 126; [1], blank. Publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt to an orange panel to spine, dust-wrapper designed by Cecil Beaton with printed price of 7s 6d crossed out and repriced by hand at 3/6. Contents clean, edges toned. Dust-jacket with tears and chips to head and foot of spine and a little rubbed to rear. Very Good. Best known as one of America's leading playwrights of which The Glass Menagerie (1950), A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) were made into internationally acclaimed films. Tennessee Williams was descended from early settlers of Tennessee stock, and of Nantucket Island, New England and Quakers from his mothers side. The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone is a work of richness, drama and power. Item #56312
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