CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF Inscribed to Lanford Wilson

First Printing (one of about 7100 copies), with no credit to the New York Times on copyright page and no credit on p. xii to Jo Mielziner and Lucinda Ballard. Illustrated with a photograph from the production. Pulitzer Prize-winning play, a high spot of twentieth century drama, this copy INSCRIBED by Williams to fellow Pulitzer-winning dramatist Lanford Wilson on the front endpaper: "For Lanford/Love,/Tennessee." Crandell A15.I.a. Adapted into the 1958 film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman. A major ASSOCIATION COPY. Lanford Wilson was elected in 2001 to the Theater Hall of Fame and to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004. A founder of The Circle Repertory Company, he was one of the first playwrights to move from Off-Off-Broadway to Off-Broadway, then to Broadway and beyond. He was nominated for 3 Tony Awards and won a Drama Desk Award and 5 Obie Awards. His best-known plays are TALLEY'S FOLLY (which won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize) and THE HOT L BALTIMORE. Wilson's Sag Harbor ownership stamp at bottom of front endpaper. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with minor edgewear.…