OUR TOWN
by WILDER, Thornton
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., (1938). First Edition. Hardcover. Just a touch of sunning to the spine; slight foxing to the fore-edge of the bulked text which is slightly cocked; owner name on verso of front endpaper. Near Fine in a just about Fine dustwrapper. 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:... Read More
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OUR TOWN Inscribed to Billy Wilder
by WILDER, Thornton
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., (1938). First Edition. Hardcover. Small Hollywood bookstore label pasted to rear pastedown; some sunning to edges of cloth. About Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with light chipping to the spine tips. 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... Read More
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THE LONG CHRISTMAS DINNER AND OTHER PLAYS IN ONE ACT: The First Copy
by WILDER, Thornton
New York/New Haven: Coward-McCann/Yale University Press, 1931. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a Good only dustwrapper with edgewear and tears. Only 5,900 copies printed. These one-act plays represent Wilder's first attempt at a colloquial style and his first successful work for the theatre. This copy is wonderfully INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author with a quote from the play: "For Charlie:/with best wishes/from Thornton Wilder/Burton Ct./U. of Chicago/'The best of them/all' p. 69/This is the first/copy... Read More
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)
by WILDER, Thornton
Hamden, CT. Letter. Some light wrinkling, otherwise Fine with exceptional content. A two-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) to Signor Cameramer on both sides of a 6" x 3-3/4" Deepwood Drive index card with two holes punched in the left margin. In full: "Many thanks for your letter, for your generous invitation, and for the copies of the Quaderni. These last few years I have delivered many lectures -- especially last year at Harvard. The result has been that... Read More
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OUR TOWN
by WILDER, Thornton
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., (1938). First Edition. Hardcover. Typical mild sunning along the cloth edges and on the spine which has mild wear to the heel. The dustwrapper is complete with minor chipping to the head of the spine and light edgewear. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper. 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... Read More
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)
by WILDER, Thornton
Hamden, CT, 31 July 1972. Letter. Crease from folding, otherwise Fine in a Near Fine envelope. A charming two-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) to William J. Sarno on both sides of his 6" x 6-7/8" Deepwood Drive stationery thanking him for his letter and generous words. In part: "You may be amused to learn that when you saw me at Cortina I was under a shadow. I discovered only on the bus from Venice to Cortina that my... Read More
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OUR TOWN
by WILDER, Thornton
Avon, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1974. First Limited Edition. hardcover. Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase, as new. Robert J. Lee. 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... Read More
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OUR TOWN
by WILDER, Thornton
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., (1938). First Edition. Hardcover. 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... Read More
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THE WOMAN OF ANDROS
by WILDER, Thornton
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Small binding imperfection to rear board. Touch of wear to dustwrapper edges. About Fine, bright copy in close to Fine dustwrapper.
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THE CABALA with AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)
by WILDER, Thornton
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine copy, lacking the scarce dustwrapper. First issue of Wilder's first book, this copy in the red patterned cloth. Laid in is an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED in full by the author dated 18 February 1941 on his personal stationary to a Mr. Ording returning some books and explaining that he "found it impossible to inscribe each of them." The letter is folded in thirds but otherwise in Fine... Read More
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SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH
by WILDER, Thornton
Cohasset, August 1946. Photograph. Fine. A postcard-sized photograph of Wilder in performance in THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author on the verso to a woman "who took wonderful care of me."
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THE ANGEL THAT TROUBLED THE WATERS
by WILDER, Thornton
New York: Coward-McCann, 1928. First Edition. hardcover. Near Fine in a Good dustwrapper with chips and soiling. One of 2000 numbered copies of the First Trade Edition SIGNED by the publisher.
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THE SPIRIT OF MAN. AN ANTHOLOGY IN ENGLISH & FRENCH FROM THE PHILOSOPHERS & POETS MADE BY THE POET LAUREATE IN 1915 & DEDICATED BY GRACIOUS PERMISSION TO HIS MAJESTY THE KING
by [WILDER, Thornton] Various Authors
London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1934. Reprint. Hardcover. Mild foxing, browning to endpapers. Near Fine. Green cloth with approximately 330 pages printed on thin (but strong) India paper. An anthology of inspirational writing first published in 1916 during the First World War. With a SIGNED gift inscription from three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Thornton Wilder on the front free endpaper: "Charlotte Lincoln/from Thornton/Jan. 3. 1936." The recipient was evidently a relative, as both Charlotte and Lincoln are Wilder... Read More
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THE WOMAN OF ANDROS
by WILDER, Thornton
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Close to Fine in a Near Fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with a small chip to the bottom front panel and mild wear to the spine tips. Small bookseller ticket of The Seven Arts in Carmel on the rear pastedown.
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)
by WILDER, Thornton
Hamden, CT, 6 October 1974. Letter. Some light wrinkling, otherwise Fine with exceptional content. A two-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) to Mr. [Dave] Gwinn, a retired TWA pilot and writer on aviation topics. On both sides of his 6" x 6-7/8" Deepwood Drive stationery. In full: "I have a built-in respect approaching awe for air pilots. I once spent a week-end among a group of them in their 'rest hotel' at Bod Hamburg outside Frankfurt-am-Main-- what fun and... Read More
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LUCRECE
by WILDER, Thornton
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Endpapers darkened. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with darkened spine. A play adapted from LE VIOL DE LUCRÈCE by André Obey.
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THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY
by WILDER, Thornton
London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1927. First British Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a scarce, close to Fine dustwrapper with a small chip at the head of the slightly darkened spine. Precedes the American edition by a few days, of this winner of Wilder's first of three Pulitzer Prizes. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "For Mrs. Edward J. Pearson/with the regard of/Thornton Wilder/New York/Jan 16, 1931."
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RIVER ROAD BUCKS COUNTY, PA
by WILLETT, Christopher
[Lansford PA], n.d. Original Art. Fine. Christopher Willett. Small (6" x 5") oil on board of a snowy winter landscape overlooking a river SIGNED by the artist at the bottom right of the image and titled and SIGNED again on the verso. Attractively framed to an overall size of 6-3/4" x 5-3/4".
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CHERRY BLOSSOM
by WILLIAMS, Hugo
London: Poem of the Month Club, 1972. First Edition. Fine. An 11" x 15" broadside SIGNED by the poet.
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BLUES & ROOTS/RUE & BLUETS
by WILLIAMS, Jonathan
[Durham, NC]: Duke University Press, (1985). First Edition. hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper and Near Fine slipcase with some spotting. Copy #39 of 75 numbered and SIGNED copies.
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AMERICAN SCENERY; or, Land, Lake, and River. Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature
by WILLIS, N. P
London: George Virtue, 1840. First Edition. Hardcover. Endpapers foxed, plates generally clean with some light to moderate foxing, mainly in the margins. Light wear to bindings with rubbing, mostly to the joints; covers tight. Very Good. W. H. Bartlett. Two 8-1/4" x 10-3/4" volumes in publisher's gilt-decorated full green morocco leather, all edges gilt. Beautifully illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait and map, 2 engraved title-pages, and 117 steel engravings after W. H. Bartlett, all with tissue guards.... Read More
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THE GLASS MENAGERIE
by WILLIAMS, Tennessee
New York: Random House, (1945). First Edition. Hardcover. Bottom corners of the book frayed with the board exposed a little. The dustwrapper has light chipping along the top and bottom edges but presents quite well. Very Good in a Good or better dustwrapper. Bound in the publisher's coarse, dark reddish-orange cloth, one of three bindings with no priority established among them. Crandell A1.I.a. Illustrated with a frontispiece photograph from the original production. Only 5000 copies of this high... Read More
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A PERFECT ANALYSIS GIVEN BY A PARROT
by WILLIAMS, Tennessee
(New York): Dramatists Play Service, Inc, 1958. First Edition. wraps. Fine. Printed blue wraps. Crandell A24.I.a. The First Separate Printing, originally published in ESQUIRE magazine.
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KINGDOM OF EARTH. THE SEVEN DESCENTS OF MYRTLE
by WILLIAMS, Tennessee
(New York): New Directions, (1968). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Crandell A33.I. A comedy by this master of drama.
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THE RED DEVIL BATTERY SIGN
by WILLIAMS, Tennessee
(New York): New Directions, (1988). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Crandell A56.
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