[Rarebooks] FS: Final Setting Typescript of Thornton Wilder's THE MERCHANT OF YONKERS

[Charles Agvent]

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WILDER, Thornton THE MERCHANT OF YONKERS: FINAL SETTING TYPESCRIPT WITH 
CORRECTIONS IN WILDER'S HAND: TWO COPIES
TWO carbon sets of the complete typescript of Wilder's play later 
revised by Wilder into a Broadway hit THE MATCHMAKER, which in turn was 
transformed into the monster musical HELLO, DOLLY!. Each of the sets 
contains nearly identical corrections in ink by Wilder, approximately 
forty or so, ranging from filling in a lightly inked letter to adding a 
line of stage direction. In addition there are several other pencil 
corrections throughout each apparently in a different hand. Near Fine or 
better and highly uncommon.                $5000.00
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