Stairs to the roof : a prayer for the wild of heart that are kept in cages : typescript, 1941 / by Tennessee Williams.

Record ID: 
184629
Accession number: 
MA 5741
Author: 
Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983.
Credit: 
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description: 
1 item (ii, 101 pages), bound ; 29.2 x 23.2 cm
Notes: 

Play preceded by a 2-page preface with caption title, "Random observations," type signed "T. Wms. / New Orleans / Dec. 1941."
Page i: "This play is written for both the stage and the screen ... The play was written involuntarily as a katharsis of eighteen months that I once endured (miraculously) as a clerk in a huge wholesale corporation in the Middle West."
Printed on front wrapper: "Liebling-Wood / 551 Fifth Avenue / New York 17. N.Y. / Vanderbilt 6-3714-5-6 [at bottom]."
Page 88 inserted between pages 90 and 91.

Housed in: 
Green cloth clamshell box (31 cm)
Binding: 
Blue printed wrappers with 2 brass fasteners.
Provenance: 
Carter Burden.