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New York: New Directions Books, 1955. First printing. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.. First edition of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning third play, adapted into the 1958 film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman. Tangled in webs of deceit woven for personal safety and personal gain, the characters of CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF struggle to come to terms with the truth throughout the play. The 1958 film added another layer to the obfuscation of truth at the heart of the play by removing references Brick's homosexual desires in response to the Hays Code. 8'' x 5.25''. Original brown cloth binding with black spine lettering. Original unclipped ($3.00) color pictorial dust jacket, designed by Alvin Lustig. Illustrated with full-page black-and-white plate before "Notes for the Designer." NYT not credited on verso of title page and all other points. xiv, 198 pages. Jacket with a touch of scuffing to rear, some edgewear with tiny chips. Binding corners and spine ends…

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a play by Tennessee Williams that is one of Williams's best-known works and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1955.