[Rarebooks] FS: Brilliant First Edition of Thornton Wilder's OUR TOWN

[Charles Agvent]

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WILDER,  Thornton.  OUR TOWN. New  York:  Coward-McCann  (1938).
First   Edition.  Winner  of  the   Pulitzer  Prize  for  Drama  and a
touchstone  of  American  theater.  After reading  this  play,  Albert
Einstein  wrote  a  letter  to Wilder comparing OUR  TOWN  to  Homer's
ODYSSEY  and  Shakespeare's HAMLET, stating: "That an American of  the
present  day can create with such delicacy and detachment touches  the
soul  like a miracle." A tight, crisp copy in a beautiful  dustwrapper
with  minor wear to the spine tips and a superficial scratch and  tiny
closed  tear  on  the rear panel. The cloth is mildly  sunned  at  the
spine  and  to  the very top edges of both covers with  no  effect  on
either  the  front  cover or spine blue paper label.  Lovely  copy  in
brilliant dustwrapper. Hard to improve on this.               $2000.00

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