Period of Adjustment: High Point Over a Cavern

New York: New Directions. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1960). First Edition. Hardcover. [minor shelfwear, one-time owner's address label on front endpaper; the jacket is a little age-toned, with tiny bits of paper loss at both ends of the spine and a small chip at the top of the rear panel]. Williams's "serious comedy" about "a bride of two days [who] finds herself deposited on the doorstep of her husband's old army buddy" (whose own wife has just walked out on him) on Christmas Eve. The 1960 Broadway run (a respectable 132 performances) was followed by a 1962 film adaptation, the feature film debut of director George Roy Hill and also an important early role for Jane Fonda. .