Tennessee Williams
107 copies for sale · $20–$18,000 · 53 first editions · 22 signed
Notable copies for sale
Camino Real (first edition, signed) — Burnside Rare Books$1,200
Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts (first edition, signed) — B & B Rare Books$800
Partisan Review, Volume XVI, Number 4, April, 1949 (first edition, signed) — B & B Rare Books$600
Steps Must Be Gentle (first edition, signed) — Riverrun Books & Manuscripts$225
The Glass Menagerie (first edition, signed) — Burnside Rare Books$8,500
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (first edition, signed) — Type Punch Matrix$7,500
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (first edition, signed) — Burnside Rare Books$6,500
A Streetcar Named Desire: A Play (signed) — Burnside Rare Books$4,000
Collection of photographs of Tennessee Williams (signed) — Burnside Rare Books$3,000
In the Winter of Cities (first edition, signed) — Burnside Rare Books$1,250
A Streetcar Named Desire (first edition, signed) — Whitmore Rare Books$12,500
A Streetcar Named Desire (first edition, signed) — Burnside Rare Books$7,800
Works on the market
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE4 copies · $20–$6,000
27 WAGONS FULL OF COTTON; And Other One Act Plays4 copies · $20–$2,000
In The Winter Of Cities3 copies · $75–$1,250
SUMMER AND SMOKE3 copies · $150–$900
Grand3 copies · $300–$450
SELECTED PLAYS; Franklin Library3 copies · $273–$273
SMALL CRAFT WARNINGS3 copies · $71–$150
MEMOIRS3 copies · $40–$48
A Streetcar Named Desire2 copies · $12,500–$18,000
The Glass Menagerie2 copies · $2,500–$8,500
A Streetcar Named Desire2 copies · $2,500–$7,800
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF2 copies · $6,500–$7,500
The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore2 copies · $150–$1,000
The Remarkable Rooming-House of Mme. Le Monde2 copies · $125–$500
MOISE AND THE WORLD OF REASON2 copies · $73–$400
BABY DOLL2 copies · $198–$350
The Rose Tattoo2 copies · $35–$150
SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH2 copies · $40–$85
COLLECTED STORIES2 copies · $35–$73
Market context
31 copies of Tennessee Williams's works have left the market recently; the median last-listed price was $67 (last listed prices at time of sale or removal, not confirmed sale prices).
Recent auction results (hammer prices, premiums not included):
Choukri (Mohamed) Tennessee Williams in Tangier, one of 200 copies signed by the author an (forum, 2026-04-23)£260
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