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First edition, first printing, of the playwright's most popular and enduring work. The play premiered on Broadway on 3 December 1947 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama the following year. It was adapted into a celebrated film in 1951, directed by Elia Kazan and starring Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Karl Malden, and Kim Hunter. This copy is from the theatre collection of Clive Hirschhorn (b. 1940), the film and theatre critic for the Sunday Express for over three decades, with his 1989 ownership inscription on the front pastedown. Octavo. Original purple boards, spine and front cover lettered in black and white, Matisse-inspired design by Alvin Lustig to covers in black and white. With dust jacket. Housed in a custom black cloth folding box. Spine and extremities sunned, a couple of spots of wear to spine ends, else bright; unclipped jacket lightly sunned, short closed tear to spine, nicks and small chips to extremities: a very good copy in very good jacket. Crandell A5.1.a.