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Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1955. First Edition. First Edition. First issue, with no statement on the copyright page noting a prior appearance of the preface in the New York Times, and no mention of either Lucinda Ballard or Joseph Mielzinger on page xii. Basis for the 1958 film directed by Richard Brooks, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, and Burl Ives. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket with minute edgewear and faint toning on the spine panel and flap folds. A sharp copy.

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.