The Long Christmas Dinner & Other Plays in One Act

  • 1931
By Wilder, Thornton
1931. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc.; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1931.

8vo., [x], [1]-122 pp., title-page printed in red and black. Original red cloth with lettering in silver to backstrip, top-edge red, original silver, black , and red dust-jacket. Dust-jacket is only partially intact with some of the upper and lower cover torn away, top-edge of the upper board has some faint rubbing. Inscribed by the author on the title-page, "For Doris Flagg: with all the best wishes of Thornton Wilder/Chicago December 1934."

§ First edition. A one act play whose action spans 90 years in the home of one family, specifically in the dining room during Christmas dinners.

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Title

The Long Christmas Dinner & Other Plays in One Act

Author

Wilder, Thornton

Condition

Unknown

Date

1931


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