Kingdom of Earth by Tennessee Williams [FIRST EDITION] 1968 • New Directions

Kingdom of Earth: The Seven Descendents of Myrtle by Tennessee Williams 

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1968] NEW DIRECTIONS

Ex-library hardcover with dust jacket in very good reading condition.   

Dust jacket has some visible wear, a few faint water stains, sticker remainder and small surface tear to spine.  Ships in a new HQ jacket protector.

Book itself has tape remainder marks and a few water stains to cloth boards.

Pages look and read good as new!

Library stamp on bottom of title page. 

ABOUT THE BOOK

Lot is a weak and ailing youth who suffers from an attachment to the memory of his late mother. He has come to his ancestral home, a derelict house on the edge of a soon to be flooded river, with his new bride, Myrtle, a television actress. Somewhat reminiscent of Blanche Dubois from Williams's classic play, Myrtle is a luckless young woman trapped in a world of romantic illusions, one of which is to nurse Lot back to health so they can consummate their marriage. Myrtle soon discovers, however, that Lot only wants to use her to steal the deed to the property from his embittered half-brother, Chicken, a Stanley Kowalski type, brimming with masculinity and assertiveness and a few romantic plans of his own.