The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, Williams, Tennessee. Published by John Lehmann, London, 1950. First UK edition, first impression. 8vo up to 9½” tall., 126pp. Green cloth boards, gilt titles blocked on red to spine. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d; designed by Cecil Beaton. inked name to free endpaper and white-out mark; cloth faded to head and tail of spine. Jacket is chipped at head and tail of spine with a few inside tape marks. In very good condition.
This was the great playwright’s only successful novel, and like his best work for the stage, it was autobiographical. Tennessee Williams himself was the basis for Mrs. Stone, the American widow in the thrall of an attractive young Italian gigolo.
