WILDER, Thornton.
Our Town: A Play in Three Acts.
New York: Coward McCann , 1938.
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“Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?”: First Edition of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-Winning Drama Our Town; Inscribed by Him
First edition of the author's second Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed and dated by Thornton Wilder on the half-title page with a quotes added, ""A star's mighty give company." "Yes...yes, 'tis." Fine in a fine dust jacket without wear. An exceptional example, easily the nicest we have handled.
Our Town is a 1938 metatheatrical three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder. It tells the story of the fictional American small town of Grover's Corners between 1901 and 1913 through the everyday lives of its citizens. Our Town was first performed at McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey in 1938. It later went on to success on Broadway and won the Pulitzer Prize.
Our Town: A Play in Three Acts.
$8,800.00
In Stock
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