A Streetcar Named Desire

New York: New Directions, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good in a Good Alvin Lustig-designed dust jacket, unclipped ($2.75), unevenly faded, chipped at the folds and edges, stamped "H.B." on the front flap. Lavender paper on the boards, rubbed and bumped at the bottom edges, faded matching the chips to the jacket. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play set in New Oreleans' French Quarter, centering on family strife between Blanche DuBois, her sister Stella, and Stella's husband Stanley. Famously adapted into the 1951 Elia Kazan film starring Barlon Brando and Vivien Leigh.