Flowering Judas [Presentation Copy, Inscribed to Jordan Massee, Jr.]

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One of 600 copies. Inscribed and signed in full "with best wishes" to Jordan Massee Jr., dated May, 1939. Octavo (21.25cm); gray paper-covered boards and brown cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; [x],145,[1]pp. Spine lettering dulled, else a tight, Near Fine copy, lacking the original glassine and printed slip. A nice association copy, inscribed to Jordan Massee, Jr. (1914-2002), scion of a wealthy industrial family of Macon, Georgia who became an intimate acquaintance of many prominent twentieth-century writers including Tennessee Williams, Carson McCullers, Isak Dinesen, Gore Vidal, and others. His father, Jordan Massee Sr., is generally acknowledged to have been the model for "Big Daddy" in Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. N° de ref. del artículo 55202

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