Tea and Sympathy (First Edition, inscribed by the author)

New York: Random House, 1953. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "January 31, 1954 / For Melba / with affection- / Robert Anderson." Laid in is a photograph showing four people sitting at a table, the youngest presumably being Anderson, with an annotation on the verso (not in Anderson's hand), reading "Labor Day / 9/13/38."

Basis for the 1956 film directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Deborah Kerr and John Kerr.

Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Jacket lightly edgeworn and toned, with a few small splashes on the front panel.