Summer and Smoke

(n.p.): New Directions. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1948). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [good solid copy, slight discoloration to cloth at top of spine, age-browning and light spotting to top of text block; jacket spine a little faded, some uneven fading to front panel, browning around perimeter of rear panel, minor wear to extremities, a couple of light scuff marks on front panel]. (B&W photographs) The text of this edition is illustrated by four photographs from what I presume is the original 1948 Broadway production, starring Margaret Phillips and Tod Andrews -- although I have seen at least one of these photos (credited to Eileen Darby) identified as having been from a production at the Dipson's Erlanger Theatre in Buffalo, New York. (Nowhere in the book are these photographs attributed to a specific production, although it is noted that the play was first produced in Dallas, by Margo Jones.) The original Broadway production, by the way, was a bit of a flop, despite being TW's immediate follow-up to "A Streetcar Named Desire." The play didn't really make a splash until its 1952 revival at New York's Circle in the Square, which also was Geraldine Page's first major stage success; she reprised her role as Alma in the 1961 film version, opposite Laurence Harvey. [NOTE: This is the first issue dust jacket, with the rear jacket flap containing advertisements for three books under the heading "Other Books by Tennessee Williams" -- not, as you will occasionally see stated, "reviews" of any sort.] .