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

[Charles Agvent]

One of MANY fine THORNTON WILDER items in our inventory which can be 
seen at http://www.charlesagvent.com

WILDER, Thornton. OUR TOWN. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., (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 a brilliant dustwrapper. Hard to improve on this. 
Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. (#012334)        $2,500.00

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