Partisan Review, Volume XVI, Number 4, April, 1949
Price: $600.00
Original Wraps. New York: Added Enterprises, 1949. First Edition. Very Good.
First edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed by Williams in black pen on the table of contents page: "To Bob, Love, Tennessee Williams Wednesday." Additionally signed by Williams in blue pen next to his poem, "Tuesday's Child,"printed on p. 367. Publisher's white wrappers, printed in brown and green. Very good, with some toning to spine and wrapper edges, light rubbing to spine, a touch of edgewear, and a crease to p. 431. Overall, a pleasing copy, and uniquely signed by Williams. The Partisan Review was an influential literary and political quarterly magazine that ran from 1934 to 2003, publishing notable works by authors like James Baldwin, T.S. Eliot, George Orwell, and Saul Bellow. In Tennessee Williams' poem "Tuesday's Child," he uses the famous nursery rhyme line "Tuesday's child is full of grace" as a jumping off point for exploring sibling dynamics, love, loneliness, and loss. In his inscription on the table of contents page, he signs his name "Tennessee Williams Wednesday," a reference to the line "Wednesday's child is full of woe" from the same nursery rhyme, and likely a nod to the intense depression and sadness he dealt with his entire life, which he bares in his literary works. One of the major playwrights from the 20th century, Williams wrote emotionally devastating works like The Glass Menagerie (1945), A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955). Item #TW076b
