Five O'Clock Angel : Letters of Tennessee Williams to Maria St. Just, 1948-1982

First British edition. 408pp. Purple cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Bumped spine ends. Outer edge untrimmed. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has some shelf wear, light chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price unclipped. 8vo. Reveals, through a series of wonderfully open, expressive, serious, funny, gossipy and moving letters, the onset of his breakdown in the early 1960s, his on-again off-again dependence on alcohol and drugs, his constant battle with depression, and his restless need to move all over the world. With commentary by Maria St. Just, preface by Elia Kazan, and an epitaph by Marlon Brando.