Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Signed first edition)

New York: Atheneum, 1962. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed on the title-page by Edward Albee. Publisher's black cloth with blindstamped title to upper board. Top edge stained red. Some foxing to preliminaries and edges of closed text block. Otherwise fresh throughout. Attractive, unclipped dust jacket a bit toned with one crease to back panel. A Near Fine copy in like dust jacket.

A cruel and sensational Tony Award winning theatrical exploration of a marriage, later adapted into an Oscar winning film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Albee sets the story after an academic party, and crafts cutting dialogue to reveal the (truncated) jealousy and tension between a middle-aged couple and their two guests; skewering social expectations along the way. The play was an immense success for its challenging characters and emotional performances, which provided an “electric evening in the theater” (New York Times, 1962). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. (Inventory #: 7241)