[Rarebooks] FS: INSCRIBED First Edition of Thornton Wilder's Classic OUR TOWN, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $4000 NET

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." This copy 
is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author upon publication on the title 
page: "For Jack from Thornton/with all his best/Jay Six/April 1938." Jay 
Six was a ranch in southeast Arizona that Wilder frequented. Two years 
prior, in 1936, John Fitzgerald Kennedy and his older brother Joe had 
their first paying jobs at the ranch. Alas, THAT Jack was not there in 
1938. Tight, crisp copy with the typical mild sunning along the cloth 
edges; bookplate of someone named Comstock on the front pastedown hidden 
by the inside dustwrapper flap. The dustwrapper is complete but for a 
small chip at the heel of the spine affecting the last two letters of 
"Coward" and "McCann." Other than that there are just a few scrapes to 
the rear panel and light edgewear. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper. 
(#014716)     $6,000.00

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