[Rarebooks] FS: Illustrated OUR TOWN Signed by Thornton Wilder & Illustrator Robert J. Lee

[Charles Agvent]

WILDER, Thornton. OUR TOWN. Avon, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1974. First 
Limited Edition. Quarto (8-1/4" x 11-3/4") bound in full brown corduroy 
with an oval leather spine label; 132 pages. With an introduction by 
Brooks Atkinson and a note by the author. Illustrated by Robert J. Lee 
with 4 double-page color plates,3 full-page monochrome plates, and 18 
marginal sketches printed in a rosy terra-cotta. One of 2000 numbered 
copies SIGNED by the artist and by the author, the only limited edition 
of this Pulitzer Prize-winning play and certainly the easiest and least 
expensive way to obtain a signed copy. This copy is directly from the 
publisher's Connecticut office and is not numbered but is essentially 
untouched since publication. Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase, as new.

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." (#005438)        $250

https://www.charlesagvent.com/pages/books/005438/thornton-wilder/our-town

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