first edition Hardcover
1931 · New York and New Haven
by Wilder, Thornton
New York and New Haven: Coward-McCann and Yale University Press, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. First performed jointly by the Yale Dramatic Association and the Vassar Philaletheis Society, this one-act drama spans 90 years of Bayard family Christmas dinners, capturing the changing American landscape and evolving social mores through their holiday celebrations. Octavo. Original rust cloth binding, with silver titles. The bottom corners are very lightly bumped. In the striking Arthur Hawkins-designed dust jacket, which is a bit edgeworn with some minor creasing to the front flap; otherwise very good. (Inventory #: 74942)