Inscribed

The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore.

New Haven, CT: New Directions, 1964.

Price: $1,000.00


About the item

First edition, second issue, with pp. 19-22 tipped in and Scene Two starting on p.21. 118pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed. Aquamarine cloth. Very slight rubbing along lower edge, otherwise a near fine copy in near fine dust jacket with very slight wear and soiling.

Item #320839

Inscribed by Williams to Bob Wilson, owner of the Phoenix Book Shop, on the front free endpaper.

Perhaps Williams' least successful play. In a 1971 interview with Rex Reed, Williams recalled the writing of this play as "the most frustrating experience I've ever been through... I keep rewriting it all the time... That play reflected a preoccupation with death, as did most of my work in the Sixties." Deviln, Conversations with Tennessee Williams, 196.